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    "id": 1231705,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir. The issue of climate change and carbon credit is a mystery to all Kenyans. It is important that this Committee, in its report, clarifies to Kenyans how carbon credit is calculated and in which form payments are made to the beneficiaries. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have certain players in this country, like the communities around the Mau Forest, the Kaya Forest in your home, those around the Aberdare Forest and in Kakamega, the only existing tropical forest; awaiting to know how it is done, so that they can collect their credit. I am afraid that given the increased traffic from the western world into Nairobi by agents of carbon credit, they might actually come here to collect our credit and go back with it to Europe. We do not need them to come teach us how to plant trees or protect our forests. In Kakamega we have been protecting this forest from time immemorial. We must be very careful. My second clarification is on the important issue of the COVID-19 funds. When I was on my sabbatical, there was a lot of debate in this House and the National Assembly about the loss of COVID-19 funds that created the Covid millionaires. The then President promised this country that within a specific time he was going to release a report on who stole the Covid funds. Could the Committee come with a list showing who those Covid millionaires were, especially knowing that some of them being relatives of people who were politically correct, were being protected? We want to know these people who stole the money that was meant to save lives of Kenyans, who we lost during that time."
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