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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "The solution does not only lie in putting up dykes. The solution lies in taking a sober look at the challenges in the ground. I have just given that as an example of what we face when the climate goes the wrong way. However, it is not too late; it is doable. It is available. I have also found that the Kenya Forestry Service (KFS) is willing to partner with those who would like to help it get on the ground. I was warmly received when I visited their offices recently. There will be a tour to Busia County by KFS to try and map out the forest cover in that county and see the kinds of interventions are required. The situation is dire because the national average is a paltry 10 per cent the forest cover. However, in Busia County, the figures I am seeing are very disheartening. We are supposed to have a 0.04 per cent forest cover, not anywhere near the small national average we are required to have. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I pray that the Council we are considering and whose names we intend to approve, will come in and help us fix the environment. A Council that has the President, Vice President and many senior people including experts, will be up to the task and will go to war against the environmental change. Unlike in other wars, this war cannot be left to the soldiers. Any war demands input from the citizenry and the population. Let us mobilize our people to appreciate these things, so that when the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and the Water Resources Management (WARMA) come in and say that they are ploughing up the river and that they should move back six metres; there will be no resistance on the ground. They will understand that it is required for their own good. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I support the Motion that is on the Floor; the Report of the Joint Committees of these Houses on nominees for the appointment as members of the National Climate Change Council."
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