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    "id": 736642,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/736642/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "There are number of other issues that I would like to raise. I am happy with the issue on the Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG). We should go a step further in terms of reducing taxes almost completely on these products. Contrary to this, a large number of Kenyans, more than 70 per cent, still use the traditional coal and firewood as their means of energy for cooking. This is not sustainable. I drive on the Garissa Highway everyday and see lorries carrying huge tonnes of charcoal. The question I always ask myself is: How many trees does one lorry carry? You will be surprised that an Acacia tree, which takes close to 100 years to grow to its full strength, might not fill a lorry. You need like 10 of them to fill one lorry. If I met 20 trucks in one journey, how many of those trees have been cut down? What can we do to avert this? We should make other sources of energy affordable to Kenyans, so that they can stop cutting down natural vegetation in the environment because this continues to make our country a desert. A way to curb this would be through zero-rating the LPG and equipment thereof related so that Kenyans can buy this product at a far cheaper rate than it is now."
}