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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me start with my very good friend Member for Funyula. I miss you also. He was my colleague in the Departmental Committee on Health. I hope you are still there. At least you are talking about hills. We have heard so much about mountains. Today is about hills. Where the Temporary Speaker and I come from, there are small hills; the ant-hills. They are not as big as the ones in Busia. Our programme for forest restoration – the 15 billion trees programme – also covers private land. If those hills are available, myself, yourself, the people of your area and KFS will have a day to plant between 10,000 and 20,000 trees. Our policy is not tree planting but tree growing. There is a difference between planting and growing. So, it is a 15 billion tree growing programme. This programme is citizen-driven. We have allocated all the counties to Cabinet Secretaries. Agroforestry is now under my ministry, and it is key. Farm forestry and the 15 billion trees strategy will go hand-in-hand. Hon. Fatuma, I want to assure you that KEFRI is going to Wajir. They are in Garissa. They are going to open the first seedling centre in Wajir. Please, work with our governor and our county government. Sixty per cent of the 15 billion tree-growing strategy is going to happen in the dry land part of our country commonly known as ASALs. Hon. Nyikal I have missed you and your many amendments. When it was time for a Committee of the whole House, I would look at the Order Paper. I miss your many amendments. I still read the Order Paper. I agree with you. If you go to KEFRI, they will show you how some of the ‘peaches’ found in our forests are more valuable commercially. The perfumes you buy duty-free in Dubai are made from raw materials obtained from our forests. Dr. Jane, the acting CEO of KEFRI, will tell you which trees are good for which area of our country. We do not need to plant any trees anywhere. Our scientists have identified suitable trees for every part of this country. I have a very long list, particularly for colleagues in the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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