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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nzengu",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Musyimi Nzengu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First, I would like to start by joining my colleagues in sending messages of condolences to the family of the late Governor Dr. Wahome the Governor of Nyeri County. A person of that calibre is equivalent to the president of a county hence I send this message to the people of Nyeri County. On the matter of this climate change policy, I want to say that the matters of climate change can no longer be trivialised. Where I come from in Mwingi North, when I was growing up we had predictable seasons where we could say that rain is coming this month or the other month. However, right now you cannot predict anything about rain. It can even rain in September while it only used to come in October. It used to come around 20th October. Today, it can come in November or December and sometimes it does not come completely. The issue of climate change is really a critical issue in our country. It has economic, social and even security impacts. As a matter of fact, we have lived in harmony in the past with the people of Somalia and the only problem we used to have was banditry and Shiftas coming to steal cows from Kambaland because both of us are herd’s people and we keep animals like cows and goats. However, right now the problem we have as I report to this Parliament is that of the grazing land. Because of climate change, the land on the side of Somalia has actually degraded so much so that there is a section of the borderline between Mwingi North and Somalia where a river terminates and, therefore, it is grassland and has become a source of insecurity. Many deaths have been reported in the recent past. In about 10 years, we have had to deal with that issue almost on a yearly basis after the rains. Therefore, this policy document will guide our country in trying to forestall questions of insecurities such as we have in my constituency. I support this Motion."
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