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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Joe Nyutu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to also say something regarding the appointment of these three Kenyans to the National Climate Change Council. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, allow me to first laud our President, His Excellency William Samoei Ruto, for finding it fit to ensure that we have a council, so that we can address the issue of climate change that affects every one of us. Let me also congratulate the nominees on the approval by the National Assembly. I believe that they are going to do the job that they applied for. I also believe that they are going to give it their best. Like I said before, climate change affects each and every one of us. Most of those who have spoken before me have talked much about planting of trees which is important. As I also join them in encouraging the planting of trees, I would like to advise our fellow Kenyans that as they plant trees, they should also think of trees that have other benefits. We should not just grow trees that only give us timber. We have, for example, macadamia trees that have an impact on our environment and the climate. Trees also have some other benefits because we can sell products from trees. Orange trees, for example, have other benefits. I would like to encourage our people to grow them, so that we can arrest the negative impact of climate change and as well benefit from them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as we think about climate change, there are also some tendencies and practices by some of our people that are making rivers to dry. We know that most of our people rely on horticulture around or near rivers. I would like to urge our people to consider leaving some space for the rivers, so that the vegetation cover near a river is not removed in the name of planting some other crops because that is causing drying up of rivers. It is important that we maintain the waterbeds. Soil erosion is something that the late President Daniel Arap Moi dealt with at length in the 1980s. Most of the things that were being done then have been forgotten, if not abandoned altogether. Those practices should be rejuvenated or we should think about them again. Those days you could find a lot of cutting terraces on small farms. Agricultural extension officers used to go round seeing what was being done on the farms. That is something we should go back to because it will help arrest soil erosion as it used to. Cutting benches on our farms is also something that we should go back to. The supervision by agricultural extension officers should be reintroduced. I do not know whether they are still there. The Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries is here. I do not know whether agricultural extension officers still serve because they are"
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