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    "id": 1264899,
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    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": "because we are bent on ensuring that all our marine resources are exploited to the fullest to the advantage of Kenyans. Through this Convention also, we are actually trying to ensure that what we do on our land is protective of the sea. How do we do this? We should ensure that we have agreeable or acceptable agricultural practices. Let us not use chemicals that are dangerous to life to spray our crops. We must have standards that are acceptable not just in Kenya but also worldwide. When we also do our industries, we must have a way of ensuring that waste is properly disposed. Some countries are known to use seas as disposal areas. Thank heavens that in Kenya we do not do this and we do not intend to do it. But we have to have proper disposal mechanisms of our waste when we are doing our industries. Even in habitation, we have to make sure that we live lives that are friendly to our land and also friendly to our seas and oceans, such that we do not dispose our own waste, our own refuse into our oceans, but we ensure we have one of the cleanest oceans or ocean neighbourhoods known in East Africa. So far so good. Kenya is attracting many tourists because they say our beaches are conducive to tourists. They are attractive and are what these people would want to come and see here. In the process we are able to make a buck or two. What actions do we take now once this becomes law? Let us protect our oceans from illegal fishing because we know for sure that there are people who come here to exploit our resources over fish and do everything else that is not conducive to our oceans. Let us also ensure we do not pollute our ocean. We know very well if we are not careful and we do not protect our environment, there are people out there who would want to dump their waste whether oil or what it is in areas that are not claimed by anyone including the international territorial waters. Those pollutants are swept away by wind into our oceans to the detriment of our country. Therefore as I second this, I wish to urge the House to adopt and ratify the Convention. Number two, to also emphasize that it is vitally important to protect our Indian Ocean from what we do here on the land and what we do in that ocean. It is the only ocean we have. Once we mess it up; once we kill the tourism industry, the country will just live to regret. I come from a constituency away from the Indian Ocean. I may not be able to directly attribute what benefits people from Tharaka get from the Indian Ocean, apart from the historical epoch, that once upon a time we migrated from the ocean, the coast to where we live today. That notwithstanding, once we protect our environment including our marine environment, we are likely to have better exploitation. There will be people employed who will work in those marine areas, and I am 100 per cent sure that some of those employees who will gain economically from this conservation will be from Tharaka Constituency. Therefore, this is a Convention that is most suitable not just to our coastal neighbours, but also to everyone from every corner of the country. With those very many remarks Hon. Temporary Speaker, allow me to second the Motion. Thank you very much."
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