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    "id": 1186516,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1186516/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to support this important Motion. In this time of climate change, we need to formalise some of these things. It is not that roads did not have trees planted along them. In Kisumu, we had some lovely roads and some lovely trees cut down very viciously just because somebody wanted to put a kiosk there. We were left with nothing. The planting of trees is not the issue. Trees are planted but they do not germinate because they are not looked after. When the Bill comes up, we will see how to amend; not only saying ‘plant trees’. By law, we will put obligations on contractors or persons on the road to look after those trees. I would also want this extended to schools, which are common areas, to take advantage of this Motion. In my constituency, I have started something called ‘a pilot forest programme’. We have been planting trees everywhere and they do not last even ten minutes, one hour or maybe three weeks. Maybe some cow comes and eats them. We have this pilot programme. We fence off less than a quarter of an acre. That programme is at this moment featured in the CDF documentary. Those are the things we need to do. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Thank you, KJ, for bringing this. Goodbye."
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