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    "id": 504816,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kemei",
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        "legal_name": "Justice Kipsang Kemei",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this important Bill which I support. In addition to what my colleagues have said, I would like to just mention five points. First, Kenya is still an agricultural country. We depend on agriculture currently and we will do so in future. While we are dependent on agriculture, we must change focus so that increasingly, we practise conservation agriculture for the sake of conserving the environment. There is a tree which is of important economic sense to our country, namely the eucalyptus tree. However, we have not addressed ourselves as to where we should grow this tree and whether we should grow it. When we grow it in wetlands or areas of high agricultural potential, we are destroying the environment. I would like NEMA and other agencies which are involved in conservation and environmental management to guide this country, so that if we will have to continue planting the eucalyptus tree for use in electrification programmes, building and construction, we should know where to plant it. Secondly, we must halt construction and cultivation on all wetlands in our country. Why should we construct in wetlands yet we could move to marginal areas and construct in those areas? Consider the case of Brazil. As a country, it decided to move its capital to Brasilia which was wild, to say the least. From the point that Brazil decided to move the capital to Brasilia, Brasilia has developed. At the moment it has one of the 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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