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    "content": "progressive climate change policy, except Makueni County. I know that there are many Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) which have been holding climate change seminars across the counties. However, whether these seminars are leading to policy changes and policy implementation, is another matter. Those of us who are in the Land Committee like my friend Sen. Khaniri should come here with a Bill on environmental control and preservation of water resources. This is because those two issues are very closely related to preservation of forests and afforestation. We should not just think about the large forests as the only issues relevant to the preservation of forests. In the traditional society, forests were usually found along rivers. For some reason, people knew that rivers could be preserved by preserving forests along rivers. During colonial times, there was a very strict law that made it mandatory for people not to cultivate within about 10 metres of a river. If you did so, the chiefs visited you with wrath. At the moment, there is a very lackadaisical way of treating rivers. People cultivate within the riverbeds. You can even find people mining sand within river beds and I think our environment has gone haywire. It is the county governments which can help in the preservation of the environment and afforestation. We should have a very clear policy that every county whether arid, semi arid or fertile, must have a certain percentage of forest cover to qualify for some grant from the National Treasury. There should be some inducement to increase forest cover by giving some conditional grants for afforestation to counties. Secondly, there should be a regular inspection and a report from the Ministry of Environment, Water and Land on how much forest coverage exists in a country from year to year. This must be done incrementally. Targets should be set for counties every year and incrementally, we should be able to determine which counties are fulfilling---"
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