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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tabitha Keroche",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I rise to support this Motion on the approval of the appointees of the National Climate Change Council. I want to congratulate His Excellency the President, Dr. William Ruto and Kenya Kwanza for taking climate change very seriously. We though climate change could not happen in an underdeveloped country; we only thought it happened in the developed world but we have experienced it and we have seen it. I am happy that we have now appointed a committee that will take care of this climate change. However, I do not think they have much time because they should immediately come up with policies that meet international standards to seriously take care of our environment. I come from Nakuru County where we have six rivers yet Nakuru County has no water. Nakuru County has a freshwater lake that is Lake Naivasha and around that Lake Naivasha we have our flower farms. Seventy-five per cent of the flowers that are exported from this country come from Naivasha, Nakuru County. However, although we pride ourselves as Lake Naivasha being a freshwater lake, our flower farmers have been throwing pesticides into this Lake. This Council has come the right time when everybody needs it and the Nakuru County people need it as much as the other part of the country needs it to ensure that we save our water, lakes and rivers. I know that when the Late Prof. Wangari Maathai got the Nobel price and she was fighting for environment, I remember some people calling her a mad woman. However, had we followed our full steps then, I am sure by now we could be priding ourselves that we have achieved something, especially with regard to planting the trees as she was advocating for and saving our rivers."
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