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    "id": 1480228,
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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": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, as an old leader of this House, I will answer all the questions, including the one by Mheshimiwa Kamket. Let me start with the question by my very good sister the Member for Lamu East. She is called Captain Ruweida. At one time, she was our captain. During our campaigns, she flew former President Uhuru, President Ruto, and myself. When I was the Leader of the Majority Party, she used to bring a question every day. She is a very active Member of Parliament. I have been to Lamu East. I think Prof. Kindiki and I were the first Cabinet Secretaries to land on that island. Later, the President followed us and commissioned the first road. I hope they are still working on that road. I assure you that even this morning, I discussed with one of our biggest partners as a country, the German ambassador, how we can work together on the marine ecosystem and mangroves. The first constituency will be yours. You know that. She is a great leader. She even helped me and the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) when we dealt with insecurity in Boni Forest and Lamu. She is one leader who is always there. Hon. Saney is a good friend of mine. Today, I want to tell him that I am an expert on climate issues. There are two ladies in the Ministry. One is Dr Pacifica. She is the Head of the Climate Secretariat. The other one is Dr Omambia. I have never met more competent Kenyans on climate change. The climate change and carbon market that we are dealing with is what you people passed in the Climate Change (Amendment) Act, 2023. Many of the questions Members are asking me are covered in that Act as amended and in some of the carbon market regulations that were passed. And I thank the House for that. I looked for that Gazette notice. That is why I said I would gazette it again if I cannot find it. I have asked the Chief Forest Conservator that we go there. He will operationalise that forest. I assure you that the leadership and the Board of KFS have received the request for operationalisation. They are working on the plans, resources, and mobilisation. Take it from me; it will be done. But on climate issues, do not go that route. It is very complicated. The carbon market is international. The people we are dealing with are the polluters. Who are the polluters? They are not in the Global South. They are not in Africa. They are in the Global North. We will make sure that we deal with this matter. There was an issue of how to deal with pollution upstream. To answer Hon. Jematiah's last question, the Nairobi River will be like the Thames River."
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