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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to second this Motion. Let me begin by saying that climate change is real and is here with us because we are already witnessing many adverse effects of climate change. I want to remind this House of a quote by a former Member of this House, who is late and whom we remember with a lot of love, that is, Prof. Wangari Maathai. She said: “Nature is very unforgiving - What you give to nature is what nature gives back to you.” Hon. Speaker, because of our own human errors, we are now witnessing very difficult times as a nation, continent and world. Two weeks ago, we read about a city, Cape Town, which has gone dry. This is like having the whole of Nairobi with no water at all. They warned us that this is just the beginning and that we are going to witness many more cities running dry in the subsequent years to come. Nairobi is said to be one of them. A time has come for us to make concerted efforts towards policy changes. We need to come up with policy frameworks which can help us deal with climate change. Only this weekend, there was a big picture in one of the dailies of a big river in Kenya which has now run dry. Each one of us in this House can actually identify a river or a stream which once had water as you grew up, but today, all you can see are The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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