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    "id": 769712,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mohamed Mohamud",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohamed Mohamud Sirat",
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    "content": "Let me also say that Wajir South Constituency is a host community to refugees who have been living there for nearly 30 years. You can imagine a population of over 6,000 people. That is nearly a million people who are living on that land. They need vegetation for their shelter, livelihoods, firewood and charcoal. Over that period of time, we can imagine and appreciate that the environment has been facing the brunt of this population surge that occurred within a short period of time. The arrival of refugees has made environmental degradation to be too much. I have had an opportunity to talk to the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Dadaab that is bordering my constituency. We have clearly explained to them that we cannot accept the environmental degradation that is being looked at with a blind eye. We must focus on the support our society requires to ensure that a healthy environment continues to stand. Given that case, we have asked the UNHCR to ensure that they intervene and support rehabilitation of our environment. That has been looked at with a blind eye and deaf ear. It has not been considered at all by the responsible UNHCR which has brought refugees to our land."
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