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    "id": 267901,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/267901/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to dedicate today’s Statement to the memory of the late Minister for Environment, hon. John Njoroge Michuki. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to believe that we all agree that sound environment is a requirement for a bumper harvest for our farmers and to harness the economic well-being of our nation. With that in mind, I rise to update this House on the food situation in the country. I wish to pay tribute to our departed colleague, the late John Njoroge Michuki. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have eulogized and honoured Mr. Michuki in church and in other public places. However, it is important we voice this recognition in this very House from which our late Minister served our country. With our voice, our recognition of services of the late Minister to our nation will stay on record. Environmental conservation is not for the faint hearted. It is for the brave, daring, bold and the visionary. Mr. Michuki was all these. We have lost a real foot soldier in the march towards a sound environment, food sufficiency and economic stability. Mr. Speaker, Sir, since Mr. Michuki moved to the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources in 2008, we saw substantial progress in the environment and climate change sphere. In addition, the programme on water catchment that he spearheaded will forever remain a living testimony of his desire to ensure a food secure country. Let us demonstrate that we genuinely share the values and patience in fighting climate change and restoration of forest and water towers. I have already called on all Kenyans to plant and grow at least one tree. We have directed the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources to scale up this tree planting programmes to make it well above the current target of 5 million trees per year. But of course the Government cannot do it alone. We need to plant 400 million trees per year if we were to achieve the target of 7.6 billion trees by the year 2030 that hon. Michuki set. This may appear unachievable but I assure you it is achievable. Mr. Speaker, Sir, over the last few years, Kenya as a nation has been planting nearly 200 million trees per year. We need only to double this. With our collective resolve and your support we can do it."
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