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    "id": 1283125,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1283125/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "The amendments that have been proposed as Sen. Wambua has said are long overdue. My take is as follows: I remember many years ago when I was in Malinya Primary school. We were taught basic science. We were told human beings breathe out carbon dioxide and the trees breath out oxygen. Human beings take in oxygen and the trees take in the carbon dioxide. At that time, we used to play around with it. However, Mr. Muliolo the then headmaster at the primary school would go further and say “let nobody play around with Kakamega Forest”. Those were many years ago. Today it has become evident that the world is a global bio-digester. If we do not fix that bio-digester, it means we shall live in shit, breathe shit and eat shit, which is exactly what this Bill is proposing. However, because of the shortage of time, I would like to appeal in support of this Bill to African countries. Communities which have taken up the lead in this matter should enjoy the carbon credit. If you move from Kakamega, Nandi, Vihiga and Kericho counties, the amount of good these people have done in this country by protecting forests should be recorded in history. For reasons of time, let me do a small rebuttal. There was an unfortunate contribution from a distinguished Senator a few minutes ago. I did not want to waste time on points of order. I register a strong rebuttal that Prof. Wangari Muta Maathai was not mad. The professor was the Chairperson of the Department of Human Anatomy at the University of Nairobi. We do not know whether some of the people who were making this contribution went to University of Chepkube---"
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