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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will give the Statement first and then deal with the Questions. I stand here today to present to the nation the situation with regard to food, water and energy in the country. We have a very worrying situation today, and the forecast in all these areas is very grim indeed. The gods are not responsible! I want to say that the gods are not to blame. We are paying the price for decades of wanton destruction of our environment which has seen our forest cover decline from 12 per cent at Independence to just about 1.2 per cent today. We have consistently abused our water towers, slashed and burnt our forest and farmed in our river basins. From Mt. Kenya through the Aberdares, the Mau Forest, Cherangany Hills and Mt. Elgon, our water towers are seriously threatened by human encroachment. We are, therefore, reaping what we have been sowing and it is a very bitter harvest indeed."
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