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    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for the opportunity. I have been sitting here with an intention to contribute to this Motion. I support this Sessional Paper. I am a very disappointed man. I am over 50 years old and I think we have taken nature very casually. As somebody said, and we all know it, climate change is with us and we are doing very little about that. One thing is that, as somebody said, nature has been very kind to us and it is only good for us to reciprocate by doing something about it. Everybody has said the same thing. I think in the Kyoto Protocol there was money given to anybody who could actually plant trees. We call it carbon credit. You were given free money by just covering two or three acres, depending on how much it was. This country never took advantage of that. It was free money so that we could have this afforestation programme. Three years ago, I went to Romania which is much industrialised. My fear was that, that country would have been turning into a desert, but to my surprise, 10 per cent of the land cover is covered by forests. You drive through the city and you see forests. I was so impressed. We went out of the city, almost 200 kilometres by train and it is all covered by forests. Whether there are wheat or rice plantations, the next thing you see is some forest cover. So, we have been very unkind to nature. In my constituency, there are about 152 primary schools - I am giving out free tree seedlings to each of those schools. I have started going round expecting rain, which we never know when it is coming, giving free seedlings to every primary school so that they can take part in planting trees for prosperity. We are doing the same thing to secondary schools. I want to ask 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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