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    "id": 320838,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mwakwere",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 189,
        "legal_name": "Chirau Ali Mwakwere",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is every reason to believe that this is a very serious problem, and needs not just the intervention of the Ministry and the institutions that have been put in place, but also the intervention of all of us, particularly the leadership that we depend on to get things done around the lake. I fully agree with Mr. Olago’s observation that not much has been achieved in our initiatives towards the removal or elimination of the water hyacinth in the basins, particularly the Winam Basin and other basins of Lake Victoria. However, this does not mean that we have not been doing our very best to eliminate the weed. It just confirms that we need to come up with other innovations, or even take note of what is being done elsewhere, where there is probably greater success, and apply the same methods in our endeavour to succeed. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to make a further comment or suggestion; that in order for us to be reading from the same script, I personally will go to Kisumu to join my colleague legislators for a tour of the areas that have the weed and meet other leaders. I believe together we will come up with a strategy that will, hopefully, give us a lasting solution. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the question of loss of lives, this is truly regretted. But it all amounts to the same thing; that we have not succeeded in removing the weed. Probably, there could be even more lives lost, God forbid, but this should be sorted out in one form or the other once we get together as leaders. I would recommend that we meet within the next four weeks. I know that we are very busy, but we should set aside a day when we shall all be together in Winam Gulf and other areas around the lake which are affected by the weeds."
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