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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I urge Sen. Muthama to find somebody to amend this Motion. After that, the report to be submitted to this House should not just be six months after the Motion. We should have a half yearly report on environment placed on our table on every county so that Senators can see, for example, if it is Nyandarua where are the beautiful dams which were sunk by colonialists where Ewaso Nyiro started? They are no more. If this Senate is to live up to its billing as the protector of the counties, nothing is more important for the counties than the environment. I want to urge my colleagues from counties with fragile ecosystems like Kajiado, Narok, Marsabit, Mandera and so on--- There is another craze going on that is a threat to the environment in those areas; reckless subdivision of land. Those ecosystems have been sustained because of large tracts of land. They have their own scientific way of living with animals. You grace here and when the grass is over, you move on and come back when the grass has regenerated. Now they are subdividing those group ranches, putting barbed wire. They maintain the same huge herds of cattle on land which cannot hold them. So, we are moving away from fragile ecosystems to near desert situations. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to encourage my colleagues from those areas to ensure that the farming you find in high density areas like Kiambu and Trans Nzoia, can certainly not be the same farming you find in the county of Sen. Muthama or the Kajiado County. That is why I talked of stereotyping in this country. Somebody sat in some office and said that the best thing to do for the youth of this country is fish ponds. In Mandera, Kitui, Bungoma and many other places you will find fish ponds without knowing that the evaporation rate cannot sustain a fish pond. But they are there. They have sunk in billions of shillings and then they come around and say that this system has failed. It is a pity that nobody is held to account, the money is gone and now they are studying why it failed. They will spend other millions on that study. That is the World Bank and IMF trap that we must avoid. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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