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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, the other thing is that it creates employment for our youths by giving them an opportunity to work by the roadsides. When you look at our highways, we gave an opportunity to contractors who came and destroyed every tree that was by the roadside yet in China, for example, you cannot destroy a tree. They will harvest the tree as it is, even if it is huge, and replant it elsewhere. You even wonder why we do not use the same system of ensuring that we move the trees when constructing roads. The trees would have survived and Nairobi would still be a green city today. We seem to have forgotten that there should be walkways for people to use along the same roads where we have planted trees. Whenever you travel out of the country, you find people running on the roadsides because they have planted trees and they also have walkways in-between where one can run. Even as we support this Motion, we need to move and join the rest of the world. Around the world, people are paid as an incentive for climate change. Governments are now giving people opportunity to plant trees and once they harvest carbon from the trees, the governments gives them an incentive. That is a climate change incentive being given in Canada and in many other countries. That is why our President said that we must plant five billion trees. He knows that in the end, it will also be an incentive for the country. The biggest challenge we face in Nairobi is that people have encroached on every road reserve and built kiosks. We need to take back the road reserves and start planting trees. In the last two days, Hon. Kiarie of Dagoretti South has brought to this House very important Motions that speak to our young people. We have lost the culture of appreciating nature. The late Wangari Maathai taught us to be hummingbirds. Today, Hon. Kiarie, you are the hummingbird that is telling us that we have destroyed most of the nature that we were given. I hope when we reopen Uhuru Park, we will find trees – a green park, where our people can go walk and rest with their families and be able to feel the goodness of nature. That way, we will be able to appreciate nature. In our informal sectors people have completely lost touch of what nature is. We should also go back to vertical farming and use the small spaces that we have to plant trees and vegetables using vertical farming and ensure that you at least have a tree. We need sustainability and hence the need to have to partner with the forestry authorities to, first, safeguard what we have. We need to make tree planting a component of road construction projects so that whenever we construct roads, we plant trees on the sides. With those few remarks, I support."
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