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    "id": 646491,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you can see the ripples of Kericho at play on the Floor of the House. When the CoG is represented in the Committee, I hope that the governors will pay more attention to matters of climate change and, in particular, afforestation. The huge sums of money that they remitted to the CoG can be diverted to help afforest our counties. This country is not doing well. At Independence, our forest cover was about 10 per cent. Although we have been seeing the Cabinet Secretary churning out false figures about our forest cover, the truth is that Kenya’s forest cover is under 2 per cent of our land mass against the recommended bare minimum of the United Nations’ (UN) 7 per cent. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we want to see this country move like South Korea and Japan whose records show that in 1960, South Korea had a forest cover of 10 per cent. Today, they have got a forest cover of 85 per cent. That is a positive development in protecting the environment. In fact, the Senate Majority Leader and I should sit and draft a law that compels counties to spend a minimum of their budgets on afforestation in the counties. This will become an obligation and not discretion. When we look around the country, forests are being destroyed like we do not have tomorrow. While in a low flying aircraft - the sky team must have done this repeatedly - you will see the kind of forest destruction going on in the Mau Forest. Everywhere in that forest, there is smoke coming up, illegal farmers and all manner of things. The Senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet County is himself an offender, having been evicted from a public forest recently."
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