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    "id": 381130,
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    "speaker_name": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to withdraw the sequencing aspect with all due respect. Thank you for affirming that I was actually praising Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale’s rich background in medicine. It is only him and, perhaps, and a few others of his kind who can understand that I wanted to refer to cancer causing pollutants. The rest of my friends, including my learned friends here, I am sure were in the wilderness. So, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, we really appreciate you for that input. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the nexus between environmental protection, wetland protection and adequate water for irrigation cannot be over-emphasized. This is one area where we want to, not only urge the national Government to put in place effective measures to protect water sheds and other riparian resources, but also to carry out public education among our people. Most of our people think that when they are told to move far away from water bodies, the Government is punishing them. The Government does not want to benefit from the water resources nearby. I remember in the past, even during the colonial days, there were very strict rules. You could not build or cultivate up to a certain distance from a water source. Even now in our Agriculture Act, those regulations are there. I am a lawyer and I have studied legal history. I can remember the history of Kenya since time immemorial. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the short point we are making here is that we need to enforce environmental protection vehemently. We need to protect our water so that we can have adequate water which we can use to provide food for our people so that we can have an environment that protects the interest of the present generation without compromising the interest of future generations. That is what we call inter-generational equity. With those few remarks, I fully support this Motion."
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