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    "id": 774704,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. If climate change affects people, it mostly affects persons living with disabilities whose mobility is challenged when it comes to search for water, food and pastures for their livestock. Persons living with disabilities are affected the most. From the outset, I support the adoption of Sessional Paper No.3 of 2017 on the National Policy on Climate Finance. Even before we go further, let me start by becoming a bishop and preaching a bit. The book of Jeremiah, Chapter 2, verse 7, states: “I brought you into a plentiful country to eat the fruits thereof and the goodness thereof but when you entered, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.” That is exactly what has happened in Kenya. Further, the book of Leviticus says: “I will break the pride of your power. I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like stone.” That is exactly what has happened in Narok and generally in Kenya. As I speak, River Ewaso Ngiro, which is the pride of Narok County, is dry. Maasai Mara River is dry. Livestock are perishing. Wild animals are dying. The wild beasts are dying in their hundreds and thousands. We are totally affected. We are in such a season where we are losing our livestock and crops. We get worried when the Meteorological Department says that the onset of rains will be on the second week of March. We, the people of Narok, get worried because such rain comes with floods, which sweep us away and destroy what we wanted to protect. This Sessional Paper has come at a time when we are in dire need of conserving our environment, having destroyed it. We know very well that nature is unforgiving. We were 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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