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    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. How I wish to be here next time to vote for you to be the substantive Speaker. I thank my dear brother KJ for the Motion that he has brought. It is a very timely Motion. The whole world now is talking about climate change and part of that is global warming and the effect of trees. I concur with a few of my colleagues whom I heard say that this should not only be a Motion but it should be escalated to a Bill. In the Building Code and in other Building Acts, we discussed at some point that it is also important for us to include as a mandatory requirement, just like when you are getting approval for building houses and other places, that we must plant a certain number of trees even if we do not have space to put up a house. We can be allocated one by the forest department in our forests for us to do that. As a country, it is important for us to think that in as much as we are trying to address issues of climate change and global warming, planting trees is key. As a committee, we will escalate this matter so that even at the school level, we encourage students to start taking it as a subject. Lastly, it is important to prevent forest fires. We plant trees which take years to grow but a person smoking a cigarette or out of malice may set fire to a forest. Again, we need to look into ways of protecting our forests to reduce the incidences of forest fires that consume a huge population of our trees. I want to thank our dear brother, pongezi sana for the good job he is doing. He is from an urban area where we do not expect to have many trees, but he has taken it as his responsibility to bring this Motion. He is a good example for the young people who are in this Parliament under the age of 35. This is his fourth Motion in less two months. I hope the other The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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