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    "id": 774640,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/774640/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Government, including the National Treasury and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, should work in tandem. Where mitigation is required, finances are given. Once those finances have been provided, they should be utilised in the most prudent way without wastage so that at least we can conserve our environment. Tourism is a very important aspect of this country. It is a strong foreign exchange earner but most of the tourist locations rely on our environment. If we do not have proper environment for the wildlife, or we do not have water for wildlife, or we do not conserve those areas where the tourists visit, we will not go far. Therefore, all these aspects are intertwined into one. The best word to describe it is to conserve the environment so that whatever resources we have can be utilised properly so that at the end of the day we can achieve the aspect of getting to control the climatic change. Look at the pollution we are getting in our cities and towns. Every morning, here in Nairobi, when we wake up, there is a big cloud covering the whole City. When you go down to Athi River and other places, it is shiny and bright but there are thick clouds. Those are not natural clouds. They are fumes and other waste products which hang in the sky. Those are the ones which bring diseases. Those are the ones which change our environment drastically. Desertification is now crawling in slowly even where we thought there were big forests. This Sessional Paper will cushion us. It is a Paper whose importance all of us should appreciate. The most important thing is the practical bit of actualising this piece of paper. In as much as we debate it here, if it is not put into practice, it will just be water under the bridge. It will erode and we will be left asking ourselves what we said and what we did. Therefore, the National Treasury, the conservationists, NEMA and even us legislators, when we go out there, let us preach conservation and plant trees. Let us conserve our trees. Let us plant indigenous trees. Let us increase the forest cover in order to attract more rainfall. If we can afford, let us dig boreholes in our respective areas and draw water for domestic use and agriculture. We should let some of it flow so that even the grass and other crops can grow. In the process we can protect our environment, which is already destroyed. With those few remarks, I support."
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