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    "id": 443824,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) W.K. Njuguna",
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        "legal_name": "Winnie Karimi Njuguna",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for recognizing gender. It is very important to consider the 20 per cent here in Parliament. I want to join my colleagues in supporting this Bill. This Bill ought to have come earlier on because drought has been disastrous to Kenyans. Sometimes there is destruction caused by floods and then we experience drought immediately afterwards. We need to conserve water during floods so that when there is drought we use the water to irrigate crops. We need to control deforestation. This is because drought is brought about by the cutting down of trees. We need to ensure that we have this Authority managing our environment and educating people that when you cut a tree, you are supposed to plant many more trees so that we control drought. Kenya is a potential country. We should not wait until we have shortage of food for us to act by importing foodstuffs. We should not experience some of these problems in Kenya because we have so many rivers whose waters could be used in irrigation. Drought does not affect only certain regions in this country; it affects the whole country. Even in Kirinyaga where I come from we have a region which gets really dry during certain time of the year. This programme should be spread across all the counties and especially in areas where drought hits most. It should concentrate in areas where we have The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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