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    "id": 739216,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/739216/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to make two comments. One is on the bills that the national Government owes the devolved units. In our Committee on Public Accounts and Investments, we were given a promise by the Technical Committee on Intergovernmental Relations headed by Prof. Karega Mutahi that by March they will give us a report on what the Government is doing to settle these debts, so that counties are not hamstrung for too long because without money, services cannot be rendered. Unfortunately, up to now that report has not come. Apparently, that is one of the things that we shall hand over to the next Senate. There should be a very strong word to the national Government that when such promises have been made by institutions of governance, they should be respected. Lastly, regarding afforestation, notwithstanding that we have an organisation called NEMA which is much more concerned about collecting NEMA rates than afforestation; we should learn from the history of USA. In 1971 and 1972 when Richard Nixon was the President, they were faced with tremendous deforestation and they started the Environmental Protection Agency which literally marked out the country and focused on where afforestation was to take place and what trees to be planted and gave a time action plan for this. A country which was being destroyed by deforestation; today when you go along the highways in the USA from any city, you will be surprised at how many trees you will find."
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