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    "id": 1223668,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1223668/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "have a small percentage of people are not too clear about what carbon trading is because this is a new thing. Having registered my reservation, I support this and inform the country that this issue of negative climate is so dangerous. You will have seen that this year Kenya has been slightly hotter. For the first time in Kakamega County, where we normally enjoy temperatures of almost between three and eight degrees centigrade, the temperatures rose to 34 degrees centigrade. This is the effect of climate change. If you do not address climate change, be prepared to have a hotter world, floods, storms and loss of species of animals. It goes without saying that during the current drought, where we are forced to feed wildlife and take water to them, a number of other species have also been lost. As a doctor, I can confirm that with climate change, you expose our people more to health risks and this is why the country should stand behind this Council. The issue of afforestation is at the core of what we are talking about. I was pleased that the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) came to Kakamega County and launched an electric perimeter fence for 117 kilometers around the Kakamega Forest. It being the last remaining tropical forest in Kenya, only to be found in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). I must laud the UNDP and the Government of Japan, which was the lead nation in these fencing projects in Kakamega County. As I thank them, I want to appeal as I mentioned in passing yesterday when I was commenting on a Statement sought by the Senator for Vihiga County, that the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Environment and Forestry should also encourage and reward communities that live with these forests. We know that in excess of 2000 youth will be employed as forests reservists. I would be happy if a small percentage of these were reserved for youth from those communities that have preserved the forests. In mind, I have the youth who should be given affirmative action to be given those jobs because they know how to live with those forests as it is. They should give it to the youth in Lamu County for Boni Forest, those from Kakamega County for Kakamega Forest, Vihiga County for Kaimosi Forest, Nandi County for Nandi Forest, Bungoma County for the Mt. Elgon Forest and youth form the Mau area for the Mau Forest. Speaking of the Mau Forest, I remember when I was serving as the Assistant Minister under the late President Mwai Kibaki, I was working in Arusha. There was a day when we got a breakthrough. The country had been under a lot of tension because of the Mau inversion by local communities. The President announced that we would plant trees in the Mau Forest. Many people feared to go because of the expected violence from the youth. I am proud that I drove from Arusha at 2.00 a.m., so as to be in Nairobi City County in the morning and onward to Mau Forest to lead the team of courageous Kenyans who refused to fear the youth. We went and replanted the Mau Forest. Having done this, I reflect on the issue of the conflict between those forests and people living there. I know there are those that believe in plantation forests and those who believe in the so-called shamba system."
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