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    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have an interest in this debate. Because of other business out there, I came in when the Mover had actually moved the Motion. I also support this sessional paper. There is a meeting going on in Paris today because the leadership the world over has concern about what is happening to the environment, leading to global warming. I travelled to Romania some years back, on personal interests. While there, I went to Bucharest. I was very impressed to find a forest covering the entire city centre. The forest in Bucharest is so distinct that you will be impressed. Recently, I had the privilege of travelling to New Delhi, and I was surprised. Despite the huge population of about 33 million, it is surrounded by vegetation all over. When I came back home, I was a bit disappointed because apart from Gigiri where we have forest, most parts of the city have been eaten up by greedy people looking for every opportunity to cut down trees. We should pass this policy paper and give a warning to those who destroy the environment. We should converse the environment for posterity. Our children are going to suffer because there are no forests in this country. I want to echo what the previous speaker said. After the people who do our roads extract murram, they move away without even covering the quarries. This is again an area where this policy will help us penalise companies which extract murram and leave open quarries. Therefore, this is a good policy paper, which we should all support and fast-track so that we can punish those people who destroy our environment. Because of the need for us to conserve the environment, we should have lessons taught in primary and secondary schools as well as in the universities, so that people can take it as a duty to conserve the environment. If we do not conserve our environment, our grandchildren will ask us what happened to their environment. Therefore, environment conservation education should be taught in schools, including nursery schools, so that people can know how to conserve the environment. Doing so is important because today you cannot even follow the rain pattern in this country. Forests help us to get rain but if I asked you when the next rains will come, you would not know. In previous years, we could predict that the short rains and the long rains would come during certain months. Today, we cannot do so because the environment is exhausted. It is actually abused all over. Therefore, we should move fast and help our people through civic education to conserve the environment for the posterity of this country. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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