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"content": "In fact, this Adani deal that everybody keeps talking about here will provide Wajir, Marsabit and Mandera counties with electricity, I will be the first one to support it. Let us build the grid, let us take it there and improve security. Let us run this country as one country. Madam Temporary Speaker, when you tell me you are supporting Adani deal to enhance Molo line or Suswa line, I will say no because we already have electricity around those areas. We cannot concentrate everything in one place. Madam Temporary Speaker, let us promote our environment by planting more trees. Let us reduce the red tape and allow people to plant trees. Let us make this tree planting exercise a competition. That should be an incentive. Everyone in this House today has one company or two. Every year as you plan activities for your company, make sure you allocate some amount of money for buying seedlings and planting trees. Today, if you go to the Masai Mara Game Reserve, there is a beautiful camp called Olonana. When you go to Olonana, before you go into your room, they tell you, “Come, we want you to plant a tree here.” If you are there with your children, they will also plant trees. They erect your name for remembrance. That encourages the environment to do well. Finally, there is a gentleman whom I met recently by the name Mr. Mark Hughes. This gentleman is currently working in the Kakamega Forest. He is responsible for planting trees at the Red Hill Link Road. He is the one who has also planted trees in the Tigoni area. He has planted trees in Narok County and he is doing so everywhere. I heard him saying: “I wish I could be given the Southern Bypass Road to plant trees. I wish people would come to Kakamega and plant indigenous trees, not to bring exotic trees.” One of the biggest challenges he is facing in this country is seeing other trees being introduced in Kakamega, which are foreign to that environment. The Moringa is a good tree. Mathenge is not a good tree. Senate Majority Leader, you do not know this. They are planting palm trees from Mombasa in Kakamega Forest. We need to take advice. This gentleman is almost 80 years old, but he is still planting trees. So, ideally, we have beautiful trees in this country. We have the Meru Oak, Oloirien and the Acacia tree. The Oloirien is the African olive tree, scientifically called Olea-africana . We have another tree in Masai called Osigonoi, which is beautiful. I see them being planted across. Let us add a requirement here for every school to introduce a tree planting course. All students will be encouraged to plant trees. Let us do away with the Mathenge tree, uproot it completely and replace it with a new tree. If Sen. Abdul Hadji would tell me that anyone who cuts a tree today and be directed by the service to uproot it, I would clap. If you go to Marigat, Baringo County, during a dry season, you will think that you are in a very beautiful green environment because of Mathenge trees. However, if you take a goat from Marigat and open its mouth, it has no teeth. The Mathenge tree has destroyed the dental structure of cows, sheep and goats. Madam Temporary Speaker, this issue of the environment is very serious. We know it. I am so happy that I introduced aerial seeding into this country, where you plant with an aircraft? In the North Eastern, we can plant millions and millions of trees using aircraft. Instead of Cabinet Secretary using--- The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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