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    "id": 138863,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/138863/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Wekesa",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 209,
        "legal_name": "Noah Mahalang'ang'a Wekesa",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to use this opportunity to commend my colleagues for the very good suggestions that they have made. My officers are here, and I hope that as I was making my own notes, they were also making the notes. Hon. Members have come up with very good suggestions that will help us to give Kenyans a better service. Currently, you pick a newspaper and you see Mau, drought and Kenyans dying of hunger. I wonder how many of us think about the real cause of all those things. The real cause is that we do not have enough water. Water is life! And as we proceed to address the issue of Vision 2030, we should not forget the fact that climate change is with us now; that, indeed, things have changed in the last 50 years. Lake Nakuru has recessed over 100 metres in the last 25 years. So, the climate change is with us. As we read these headlines, we must, as Kenyans, as hon. Members, ask ourselves: Are things still the way they were 50 years ago or do we have change? We have tremendous change. The international community and so-called developed countries have realized that, indeed, we must do something about climate change. So, as we read these headlines, we in the Government must match it with the reality on the ground. The reality is that we had drought last year and we are having even more drought this year. The reality is that all our water towers have been degraded. I just want to give you some figures and this is"
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