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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Dekow Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I support the Report presented by our colleagues in the Departmental Committee on Environmental and Forestry. The importance of this Council cannot be over-emphasized; The Chairman of the Council is the President of the Republic, and his Deputy is the Vice-Chairman of the Council. I want to take this opportunity to also thank the Members of the Committee for the good job that they have done. It is very evident that they spent a lot of time. They have also demonstrated the fact that they are not just a rubberstamp, and they will not be used to clear anybody that is presented by any office. Secondly, the Members of the Committee have actually stood on the Floor of the House to defend their Report, unlike other Committees where we only have the Chairman or his Vice presenting the Report and supporting it. I want to congratulate them for the good work. This is a serious matter. Climate change and its effects is very evident in our country. The problems we are facing as a result of the drought can always be associated to what is happening in our country. We expect the Council members to be top notch members who will be able to coordinate all the other activities of groups and donor agencies that are supporting organizations that are mitigating climate change. As you all know, there is a policy by the Government to plant 15 billion trees in the next ten years. We expect the Council to play a leading role in ensuring that we achieve those targets. We expect the Council to also do a lot of resource mobilization. You know we have so many partners and developed countries who are willing to support those initiatives. We expect them not to only depend on resources from the National Government or the Exchequer. During the last election campaign, we were told that there was a plan by the past leadership to take over the national forests and register them as their personal lands so that they can earn carbon credits from countries that were buying them."
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