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    "id": 769615,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/769615/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Jaldesa",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Rehema Dida Jaldesa",
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    "content": "Afforestation or tree planting is the effort of planting a tree on a barren land so as to create a forest. Our earth has constantly been trying to cope with the ways human beings use natural resources such as trees and clearing forest land for development has been given undue attention compared to the importance trees bring to our lives. Cutting down trees has led to contamination of air, land and water. It has polluted the environment which has resulted to global warming. The impact of global warming cannot be over-emphasised. It affects our ecosystem, our water resources, has created food shortages, brought health problems, widespread poverty including drought and floods. To give an example, Isiolo County which I represent has, for the last three years, experienced severe drought which has left 80 per cent of my constituents poorer than they were before. Up to the end of this year, we have lost close to 10,000 head of cattle which is the main source of livelihood for my community. Even when we got rain, due to global warming, we experienced the worst floods when the Ewaso Nyiro River burst its banks and displaced more than 1,800 people in Isiolo North Constituency. It is for that reason that I strongly feel that if we had enough trees, they would have controlled the impact of floods."
}