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    "id": 711018,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/711018/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Being part of the universe, this country has no option but to join the rest. The President has done very well. He has made a commitment and the best that we can do is to adopt this Report such that the process goes on for purposes of ratification. Mutuma Mathiu sometimes does some nice commentaries. He made a comment that there is a very serious conspiracy by the human kingdom to bring the universe down. The conspiracy is happening many times in a manner that some do not even realise. It happens in a manner that we fight all manner of tiny insects around. We also fight all manner of natural entities around us. Accumulation of all these activities means that we are harming the universe. That was the summary of what Mutuma was raising in his article. We think that insects are our enemies constantly. The insects we see as our enemies make a very serious contribution to the climate. Those insects help a lot in the many processes that nature engages in and for our benefit. However, we keep killing them and yet the cumulative effect is that we destroy ourselves by preventing the insects from carrying out what is an important process in nature. It is true because I remember little questions that were sometimes asked in the nature classes. When one was asked, say, the importance of a housefly, one would easily respond that a housefly cannot be important. That is exactly where Mutuma was trying to get us to. We are not doing enough as a nation, as a Government and as a people. It is true that our contribution is fairly meagre in terms of climate change. It is meagre but cumulatively, it counts. To this extent, one needs to look at our settlement arrangement is. Every single day, we are fixing homes and every single day, we are moving from our parents to fix some homes. At the village level, if you move from one home to the next, chances are that you will fell trees. Chances are also that you are going to interfere with what exists there. So, we are contributing to this in some very small ways but when they add up, they are major. Hon. Deputy Speaker, when we talk about our approach towards environmental conservation, for example, contributing to either forestalling or improving it, one of the things we must look at is how our settlement arrangement is. We have one of the poorest settlement arrangements in the world. Here in Kenya everybody is settling everywhere. There is no arrangement or policy. Until such a time that we will segregate and separate that this portion needs to be for forest, that one for agriculture and this one for settlement, we will not achieve much. We are engaging in very expensive exercises where we have to scatter power and water because we are trying to reach people with these services. Had people been clustered, it would be cheaper to provide everybody with health services, water and all manner of infrastructure. We cannot achieve this because of our poor settlement arrangement. 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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