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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support this Bill which is very important for our wellbeing as a community. I want to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate the Member for Emuhaya and my neighbour, Mhe. (Dr.) Ottichilo for thinking very wisely and coming up with the Bill. We have heard time and again, this is a global phenomenon, but the only thing which we have done as a country is to be able to attend seminars and workshops worldwide, without thinking about what we can contribute ourselves locally from here. It is important now that we have come up with this Bill, which will show that at least we have got a contribution towards the global effect of the phenomenon. There is one point that has been raised here which we really must stress; forest cover. Just to keep on talking without doing something practical, we are not making any contribution. In fact, I wonder who said that for every tree we cut, we must plant only five, because trees in a country like this one should be very easy to plant. In the Bill, I would like to encourage that we say that we can plant as many trees as possible for every tree that we cut. Already, we have done a lot of vandalism to our forests, in the past few years. I do not think for the forests that we cut for commercial purposes we replace those trees. I think we have got quite a lot to do, in order to catch up with the minimum that we have set for ourselves, that is five trees. I would suggest that we should leave it as open as possible or even if we are to put a minimum, then it should be 100 trees. This is because it is possible to do that, if we have the seedlings and whatever it takes. Most of these trees do not need a lot of input. It is just a matter of planting and they will grow. Therefore, we need many approaches to this, that is including forestation and reafforestation, and the measures that have been talked about on how we can lower the temperatures world wide."
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