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    "id": 1517355,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1517355/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Environmental Laws (Amendment) Bill 2024. I also want to congratulate Sen. Abdul Mohamed Haji who is the Sponsor of this Bill. This is an important Bill. It is surprising that existing legislation has not provided for what Sen. Abdul Haji is calling for in this amendment Bill. This Bill seeks to amend the existing Act, to make further provisions for afforestation and reforestation of forests in counties in Kenya. This was a pet subject in the administration of President Daniel Arap Moi. Out of the many things he did, for those of us who were in the 8-4-4 system of education, afforestation, reforestation and deforestation were concepts that always came up in our Geography, History and Civics (G.H.C) syllabus and examination. I am not very sure how the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) has taken care of this. I hope that the education curriculum has picked these concepts to encourage our children that a tree planted today is not for today’s child but for our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. It is noble for the Senate to call upon county governments to ensure that they promote tree-planting and also become actively involved in the National Tree Planting Week. I think it was last year that we were given a holiday out of the blues. In the Kenyan humour, particularly Kenyans who have lived for a long time in Nairobi, they decided to plant trees in all kinds of holes. We are waiting to see, perhaps after nine months, whether those trees have germinated. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you give Kenyans a public holiday without clearly telling them what they are supposed to do and without a clear build-up on the activities of that day, Kenyans will misuse it. They will take advantage of the day for sherehe and do other things that do not promote that objective. On that national Tree Planting Day, we saw the national government, especially members of the national Executive flying in choppers going around the country, releasing carbon into the atmosphere and further causing serious damage to our climate as well as going to hills and forests. This was a one-day affair. We are not sure whether those trees were taken care of. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I wish Sen. Ledama Olekina was in this House because, I do recall when there was a fight for Mau forest, he had a very innovative"
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