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    "id": 1279863,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1279863/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for recognizing the agreement that we, as Independent Members of Parliament, had with the Hon. Speaker to give us some preference. I stand to support some of the amendments in this Bill. It gives the national Government and county governments duties to mainstream climate change. I do not want to go through the whole Bill. There is a proposed amendment that civil society should be removed from the National Climate Change Council. I do not mind that, but I feel that under Article 10 of the Constitution of Kenya, we must have community representation, which is not civil society representation. We should amend that and particularly have representation from the Maa Community and other nomadic and marginalized communities suffering heavily from climate change. Hon. Deputy Speaker, one of my colleagues, was talking too much about carbon credits earlier. I have never seen this country develop anything out of carbon credits. In collusion with Kenyan consultants, the foreign consultants take away our benefit of carbon credits, which are worth a lot of money. Hon. Deputy Speaker, they take our carbon credits and throw them at the cost of nothing with foreign consultants and say: \"You must allow us to do that. We are bringing benefits to Kenya.\" I have not seen any benefits in Kenya. I do not even know the level of carbon credits Kenya earns and has. I have no idea how many carbon credits Kenya has and what they are traded for. It is the same way that the colonialists came here. They gave us cowrie shells and took away our gold. Now they are giving us carbon credits and taking away our health. The carbon credit in this country is worth one-hundredth of the carbon credit in the United Kingdom. I dispute my colleague from Mbeere."
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