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    "id": 612272,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kiptui",
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        "legal_name": "Grace Jemutai Kiptui",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity. I rise to support this Sessional Paper considering that even at the time of creation, God created the environment before the human being. He gave us a duty to control, conquer and use it for our benefit. Unfortunately, it is like we do not take that very seriously, no wonder at the moment, we are faced with issues of global warming. It has become a concern. It should come naturally to us that we need to conserve our environment because without it, our lives cannot be sustained. I am happy that the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has come up with this Sessional Paper which seeks to coordinate and give proper direction on how we should relate with the environment. When it comes to issues of conservation for instance, at the moment you will find so many young people at shopping centres saying that they have nothing to do. At the same time, you find so many gullies developing within their environment and they just look at it as a Government function. Until the Government comes to fix it, they will do nothing about it. I hope that when we pass this Sessional Paper and the successive legislations come, we will do a lot of civic education to inculcate to our people especially the young ones that environment is key to our survival. The laws that will come, I hope, will portray environmental conservation as a social responsibility of each one of us and they should not expect to be paid for it."
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