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    "id": 35573,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/35573/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
        "slug": "margaret-kamar"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to answer. (a) I am aware that Lake Kamnarok in Kerio Valley is drying up. (b) My Ministry is taking measures to rehabilitate and reclaim Lake Kamnarock by restoring the degraded Kiptilit Valley. This is being done through structural intervention with a view to reverse the current degradation trends of the area habitat while, at the same time, improving the livelihood options for the local community through a participatory integrated eco-system management plan. My Ministry is also undertaking a national resource inventory and mapping, including the Lake Kamnarock region, as a baseline upon which a standing cross- sectional technical committee, which has been constituted, will oversee the rehabilitation exercise of the degradation areas in the whole country. In addition, various site rehabilitation sub-committees comprising the local communities have been set up for purposes of mobilizing and sensitizing the affected communities to fully participate in that venture. Together with other lead agencies, afforestation efforts have been undertaken in the upper part of Parwesa where there are water retention dams. In addition, silt diversion, ditches and gabions will be constructed in Lake Kamnarock area in the Financial Year 2011/2012, despite the existing budgetary constraints."
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