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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wamunyinyi",
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        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute on this important Sessional Paper. Matters of environment, world over at the moment, have drawn a lot of interest. Even recently, the conference in Paris drew the whole world to address environmental issues. This Sessional Paper comes at a time when we expect each one of us to address environmental issues. We need to ensure that issues like global warming and poor management of environmental systems are dealt with adequately. When I was growing up, rains were predictable in Bungoma. We expected rains at a particular time and people would prepare their land for planting of maize and wimbi . People used to plant before the rains. However, these days it fluctuates. Nobody knows when it is going to come. Sometimes even weather men do not tell us the truth. Measures must be taken to ensure that the environment is protected. Such measures cannot be put in place without a good policy. This Sessional Paper gives us a framework policy within which we will work to ensure that our environment is protected. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have seen a lot of money being spent on tree planting and protection of forests in the country. We have seen this campaign on tree planting. We need to encourage our people to ensure that it is not just tree planting. Tree planting should be given priority because there has been random destruction of trees and forests everywhere even in the water towers. However, there are other issues of environment during road construction. We have quarry excavation. This is where people excavate sand for construction and all these affect the environment. Measures must be put in place to ensure that our people are aware of this. This brings about the point which we must remember and must also be inculcated into our curriculum that people, students or pupils are taught from early childhood the matters of environment. For example, we are talking about solidarity and patriotism. These are issues that can be brought about and can be injected into our young people and our community so that as they grow up they know it is important to protect the environment. It is important they have a responsibility as countrymen to make a contribution to our society and country. This Paper that has been brought before the House is very important and going forward it will help improve environment management. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have extraction of natural resources in our country that is going to be taking place. This Paper is timely and I urge that we all support it and ensure that it goes a long way in ensuring our environment is protected. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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