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    "id": 227012,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Ntimama",
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        "legal_name": "William Ronkorua ole Ntimama",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I was trying to support my case of ineptitude and total unwillingness of the Government to stop conflicts in this country. This report talks about conflicts and we have to talk in isolation about this. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you have been talking about water just now. Water is a very important component in the ACP Assembly. This is true. It is simple and clear. No human being can live without water. It is only second to the air we breath. Let us look at the way we have been destroying our environment. Destroying the environment is destroying the sources of water and making sure that water does not flow to the right places. This country has been completely notorious in destroying the environment. If you look at our forests, you will find that it is either this Government or the former one that was allocating forest land in this country. This is a disaster. That is just a simple way of stopping water from flowing to the right places or to the lower grounds. They have been doing this with impunity. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is another area where there has been total impunity and greed. Forest land has been allocated to personal friends and relatives. We have destroyed the economy and the environment of this country and I think we cannot recover for another 200 years. For example, East Mau Forest was a big forest as any other forest in the Mau Forest or Mt. Kenya, but the whole of it was allocated to people, some of whom are still there farming and cutting down trees as we debate this report. We have been told by experts, not only from outside this country, but also in this country, that Lake Nakuru is drying up because rivers like Makalia, Enterit, Molo and Njoro are dry. The 558 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 11, 2007 sources have stopped trickling even little water to go down into the lake. We have been told that the lake is silting and the flamingoes have run into Lake Natron in Tanzania. This does not seem to sink into the mind of the ruling elite of this country. Very little is being done. There is very little talking about this issue."
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