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    "id": 1222795,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1222795/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Koyi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for also giving me a chance to support this Motion on the Consideration of Nominees for Appointment as Members of the National Climate Change Council. This country has been affected and changed by climate change. As we cry about climate change every day, when you fly up there in the plane, you see people cutting trees and burning charcoal. Action should be taken against the forest officers. They are the ones who are causing those big problems. Climate change is a very serious issue in this country and the world as a whole. Many areas, like where we come from, used to have rain from January. But to date, there is no rain because of the cutting of trees. We neighbour Mt. Elgon, where there are no trees. People burn forests because they want to be given land. They think that the forest can be declared for human settlement. All of us must be involved. Moi used to say that when you cut one tree, you plant 10. Since then, we have been cutting trees without replacing them. Moi used to get involved. There was a day for planting trees and a day for stopping erosion in different parts of the country. I am happy that President William Ruto now – a student of President Moi– has taken the initiative as the Chair of the Climate change Council together with his Deputy. We want him to get involved. Moi used to say that he was a giraffe. He used to see far. We want our President to see far like a giraffe from where he sits. If all Kenyans can get involved by planting trees, I am sure in another two or three years, we will change the climate back to where it was. On the candidate who was rejected, she has papers, but she is not a scientist. When I talked to the Chair, Hon. Gikaria, he told me that, that is what the Committee decided. It is because her papers read a different area. She is an artist and they wanted a scientist. They will get another woman from elsewhere, and not necessarily from the pastoralist areas. That is because it will amount to tribalism. The woman can come from anywhere in this country. Let us not say that since she is a pastoralist, her replacement must be a pastoralist. No. A Kenyan from anywhere can do the job so long as she has the papers. Because she was a woman, they can get a woman from anywhere, be it Nyanza, Coast, Western, Nakuru or…"
}