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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "that sum in a year. Just look at 1 per cent of it. If that company could contribute just 1 per cent, we can even give them tax rebates on the amount of money that is contributed to a fund we can set specifically for environmental management and we put money from the various companies that do business in this country. A lot of them actually destroy the environment. This money could be matched by some budgetary allocation in this House so that we take environmental conservation and climate change as an important activity in this country. We can give ourselves a target; that, in the next five years or so, we will have achieved, say 5 or 6 per cent of forest cover. That would take us from mere rhetoric and legislation to actualising this important activity that we need as a country. The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) will be tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that any company that comes here to engage in business or even local companies sign this agreement to contribute towards conserving forests. We should also pass a legislation to set aside a specific amount of our budget. We waste a lot of money on unnecessary things. As Hon. Mbarire said, we even use money to correct the messes that we create for ourselves as a result of climate change. Just a few months ago, we had to come up with a supplementary budget to address the issues of drought and famine which are a direct consequence of our mismanagement of the environment. Because I know many of my colleagues also want to contribute to this Motion and we have just passed a Motion to limit time, I want to be fair to my colleagues and stop there by saying that I support this Motion."
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