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    "content": "because what they will see is a country that is burning. There are very few places in the country now where we can say the rains have not failed. If they have failed in areas which are considered actually as high potential areas, then what is it that we expect the livestock owners to do? There is a problem. When we talk about climate change and what we need to do, we always think that only means the forests. Of course, we need to restore the forest land. This Motion talks about setting up an authority so that it can be funded to do something. But, in my view, at the moment, something needs to be urgently done! Today, as we are talking, there are livestock which belong to some pastoralist communities, in the Amboseli Forest. They have gone there and they are displacing the wildlife so that, tomorrow, we shall say: “The wildlife has escaped to Tanzania”. Over the years, we have known that when the drought hits, people who live in marginal areas not only lose their livestock, but they also lose their lives. The children stop going to school, parents even migrate to other countries because by that time, you want to survive. You will go to Southern Sudan if you are on that border and, if that is where the grass is. So, today, as Kenya is burning from a drought, it is the time for us to take this Motion seriously and those of us who are in the Government – I will not say: “Tell the Government” because I am in that Government – are happy to support the setting up of an authority but with seriousness. That is because it is extremely urgent. Food production, as we know it in terms of maize and the rest of those other cereals, is going to fail. But at the same time, maybe, we shall eat bananas from that side. But the people who are dependent on livestock are dying! They are leaving this country and escaping into Somalia! You have to be totally desperate to want to escape into Somalia today, because the prospect of dying from starvation is probably worse than going across the border to be able to survive on the other side."
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