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    "id": 642184,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Musyoka",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Susan Mbinya Musyoka",
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    "content": "Thank you. I was talking about disease outbreaks. These disease outbreaks, especially cholera, happen year in, year out. This is a disease that we should have eradicated long time ago. In countries where they have taken care of the environment, you do not see typhoid fever and cholera outbreaks. They are dealing with a “more honourable” disease, if there is such a word. They are dealing with better illnesses than those outbreaks. So, we should eradicate such illnesses by keeping our environment clean, being conscious and taking the responsibility by going out of our way to ensure that we maintain cleanliness everywhere we go. We also need to make sure that the water we drink is clean. Not just ourselves, but we need to take care of the people that we lead. If you do not take care of the cook who is cooking your food, they will contaminate your food and you will end up having a disease that is not “honourable.” When we talk about waste disposal, I was expecting that with devolution, we should be having recycling plants in the counties where we take our waste products and recycle them for production of manure, energy and even baskets and mats. This would create employment for our youth, women and other people in the community. I strongly support this Motion. I hope we will do more with our waste products and make sure that we do not just clean the environment, but at the same time, we use garbage to produce energy and make use of it in other ways. The heat that we are enduring this time is avoidable if we had taken care of our environment. Climate change is a responsibility of every citizen. No one should be left behind when it comes to matters of cleaning our environment and making sure that we sustain an environment that is conducive to a better life for all of us. I would like to end my remarks there by supporting this important Motion. Thank you very much."
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