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    "id": 1263880,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to support the ratification of these amendments to the Montreal Protocol on the Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer that was made in Kigali. The amendments were to try to harmonise the Montreal Protocol to the African situation. I have listened to the comments by Hon. Shakeel Shabbir. It is true that Kenyans listening to us do not understand exactly what we are talking about. The issue of ozone layer is not new in our country. Hon. James Nyikal, who is here, will actually correct my dates. The late second President of the Republic of Kenya was invited to the United Kingdom, somewhere between 1986 to1989, to speak on the depletion of the ozone layer. The late President Moi gave such a moving speech that he got a standing ovation from the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and the President of the United States of America, Ronald Reagan, and the other presidents who were there. It was such a speech. When he came back, Kenyans were astounded as to how President Moi - with his modest education - had known so much about the ozone layer. Somebody from Nyanza by the name Prof. Ouma Muga confessed that he had written the speech. That was the beginning of the fallout between Prof. Ouma Muga and the late President Moi. That is a little bit of history. Let us go to the science of depletion of the ozone layer. The ozone layer is the space after the stratosphere. We have the aerosphere, the stratosphere and then you move to the ozone layer where certain gases known as ozone gases are domiciled. That zone controls everything, including the ultraviolet rays of the sun so that they are in a regulated form when they reach the earth. They are not as injurious as when they are not regulated. There is a quickest effect to see what ultraviolet rays can do. Fortunately, Africans do not get affected because of our skin pigment. However, when the whites or the"
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