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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also rise to support this Report, knowing very well that just last year, we finished the Climate Change Conference (COP27) that was in Egypt. It was about climate change. Additionally, just a few days ago, Malawi and Mozambique were hit by the Cyclone Freddy that has killed 200 people. Therefore, I thank the Chairperson of the Committee for ensuring that we need to now have a team of experts who can assist the country and look at what we agreed in Egypt, and how we can agree that we will follow not only the bilateral agreements, but also our own domestic ways of ensuring climate change is a subject that we all need in this country. We need to look at our forests, the heat waves that we have had, lack of rain and, right now, the rain with hailstones that has hit the western side of this country. We need to really sit down as a country and examine ourselves. Remember when Wangari Maathai kept saying that we should be a hummingbird that can save a country? That is what we are saying. These nominees are going to take the responsibility to support the Government to ensure that they are advised accordingly. What do we need to do? How are we going to survive with the different challenges that we are facing? We have had a very long drought and very soon, we may face very heavy rains with flooding. What happens to the country? Therefore, even as we agree, I am always a champion of women. I have listened to my sisters who were in the Committee and they have explained the reasons why we are rejecting one of the nominees. However, I just want to also tell women that it is important to prepare when they go for any of those Government appointments. They should not assume that, maybe, you know someone and that things will just work for them. I want to thank the Committee. I know that there are very many women who understand climate change, and I hope that the President will ensure that we get another woman to join the team. We also have another challenge. As Kenyans, we sometimes prepare so well when we are going for the vetting by the committees. We will perform well in the vetting but, when it comes to the actual implementation, you get surprised that the people you thought are the best performers do not perform. It is something that we have to also look into in this House. Let us 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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