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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Kibunguncy",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 294,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Wamalwa Kibunguchy",
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    "content": "Even as I support the Motion as amended and congratulate the Mover, I would like to add one or two other things. One, as we look at the menace of plastics in this country and littering that happens. I wish Hon. Ottichilo could have added to that one day in a month, as a day we can dedicate to clean the environment and also plant trees. We have always talked about trees and tree coverage in this country. Now that we will have mobilised everybody together on that one day, it would be excellent for us to also include tree planting. We have the structure of administration in the country, which is still along the old Provincial Administration where we have District Commissioners, District Officers, chiefs, sub- chiefs and the old men and women who work under the sub-chiefs. Now we have a structure of administration in the country which has the sub-county administrator, ward administrators and the village administrators in some counties. Some counties have not put them together. I would like to propose that, that cadre of administrators and people on the ground, amongst their performance contracting, one of the major aspects in their areas of jurisdiction is that they are given the mandate to look at how we can clean our environment and plant trees where we come from. It should be a major requirement in performance contracting. When they are being assessed in the work they have done in their various areas, this should be a very important aspect. There are some places in this country where we have dams or springs which are critical as we look at the issue of water in this country. Those are areas which we should concentrate on in planting trees. I am just enriching this Motion that apart from cleaning the environment, we also add the aspect of planting trees. We add the aspect of mandating people in whatever positions they have such as those in the structure of the old Provincial Administration, which I believe is still there. I dare add that even school heads should be given that mandate just as we used to do as we were growing up. We used to plant trees and clean our schools. This is something that has gone down and we need to revive it so that we can ensure that our schools and markets and all those areas are clean and we have planted trees. Remember the way we used to be proud when we were growing up in schools, we could say: “This is my tree.” We could look after it for eight years in primary school. You could show it to your parents and everybody and the same used to happen in secondary schools. We need to go back to those times. Just as we are going back to traditional foods, some of the things that we used to do in those days, we have to go back to them. The technology that we have now where everybody is stuck on their computers is making us to forget our environment. Let me just add one other thing and I will be through. We know that all that solid liquid waste in some areas in this country and areas outside this country is excellent raw material for generating electricity and for fertilizer production. We can use that opportunity as we collect and clean this environment to ensure that whatever we have collected, whether in solid material and liquid waste, we generate electricity and manufacture fertilizer. 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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