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    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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    "content": "that is the range. If the rivers continue to dry up, the common mwananchi will have no access to water. That reduction of water in the body may cause a lot of ill health. This is for sure. If we find eucalyptus trees to be one of the factors that are causing that, and we know global issues are progressive, then we have to have that as a strategy. I recommend what this Bill is going to do. We need to have that as a strategy. Eucalyptus trees dehydrate the soil. That is the most important part of it - the soil dehydration around it. It then causes other species such as shrubs to die off. That interferes with the ecosystem of our environment. Our environment constitutes many stakeholders, including rickets, insects and every shrub around it. So, when the water is depleted, it interferes with the ecosystem. As one of us has said, there is some good in that, but the bad outweighs what eucalyptus trees do to our environment. To Hon. Mayaka, this is in order. We are talking here about soil health when it comes to the cultivation of our crops and all that. The home river I said dried up and left the community in disarray. It used to serve us well. When we were growing up, it was abundant with water. People used to fish there and do other things such as drawing water to irrigate and plant other things. Right now, it is a wash bay. It flows when it rains and dries up when the rain goes, and that is the end of it because of the eucalyptus trees which were planted around it. It out-competes with other species. That is another issue. It out-competes them completely so that, where you find them grown, there will be no other things growing because of that out-competition. Uprooting them is the way to go, but also avoiding them so that we do not add more insult to injury. That is very important. As I conclude, I want to congratulate Hon. Irene and Hon. Kagiri who has seconded this Bill with a lot of facts. I urge other Members to support it and vote for it so that we can start implementing it. Thank you, Madam Speaker."
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