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    "id": 1221903,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "The issue of environment is very critical. It is captured in the Constitution on land and environment. We must treat it with the seriousness it deserves. There is the issue of soil erosion when it rains. I challenge this Climate Council to use schools and educate our children. Let us use schools and training centres like Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVETS) by factoring them in. Mr. Speaker, Sir, look at the experience that is in this council. I know Senators might be worried about the NCCC and the role of the Senate. There is the issue of connecting county governments and the National Government that is mainstreaming climate change function and creating that NCCC within both levels of government. There is also approval and overseeing implementation of National Climate Change Action Plan. The President has expressed his intention of ensuring that this issue of climate change is given priority in various aspects. The third one is to advise the national and county governments. I want to assure Senators and some of us who have been here a bit longer that this is one of the functions where country governments are mentioned expressly unlike others where we have to force. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is good that Sen. Wambua is still serving in the Committee on Roads and Transpiration, I remember there was a time there was an amendment to the Roads Act where the Member of Parliament, the Women Representative and the Governor were giving nominations to the Board that would sit at the sub-county level at the exclusion of the Senate. We had to beg. We had to throw that law away because the Senate was not mentioned expressly. There is also the issue of research. We want to know which type of tree to plant in Makueni County where Sen. Maanzo comes from because of the climatic conditions there. When you go to Narok or Nandi, which type of tree should you plant? Even as we say we want to massively plant trees, which trees should we grow in Garissa where rainfall is not regular unlike Nandi. We need to be very keen on this issue and also administer the Climate Change Fund. The Committee should invite this council so that we know which type of fund this is. I know the Chairperson of the Public Investment Committee and Special Funds Committee, Sen. Osotsi is smiling because this is one of the special funds. He has work to audit and invite so that they appear before them. We will now have Climate Change Fund which will fall under the County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee. I can see a number of Members of the committee here. That committee is critical. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the last point I want to make is on the issue of research. The Climate Change Fund must in some way ensure that we get adequate seedlings, especially from the Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI). We also have the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) where we can provide seedlings to groups. We have Community Based Organizations (CBOs) at the county and constituency level, including Nyamira, where we visited. We can use KEFRI and KFS to provide trees to them."
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