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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Atandi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Onunga Atandi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we had fresh air. We had plenty of water. Right now, you realise that in Nairobi, it is very hot and even water, which is a basic commodity, is hardly available. We really need to think about how we can address, in a more organised way, some of the consequences of climate degradation. This Policy will realise certain proceeds and one of them is that we are likely to see the private sector investing in climate matters. In my view, climate change is one of the things we need to consider as an economic activity where we can invite the private sector to also invest. I want to lay blame squarely on the previous regimes. Most of my colleagues from the Maasai region have pointed out that successive degradation of the Mau Forest and other environmental areas has happened in the eyes of the KANU regime. We need to blame them for failing to address this issue in a timely manner leading to a situation where, as a country, we really have to think hard on how we are going to move forward. Most of my colleagues have rightly put it that if we do not address environmental concerns, we are not likely to have a country. In my constituency, I have noted some of these concerns. There are certain investors who have acutely decided to destroy the environment despite the existence of the Government departments that are concerned with safeguarding our environment. I must point out that when the new CS begins to work, I would like him to go to a place called Lake Kanyaboli in Alego Usonga, where an investor has deliberately decided to destroy our lake. Today, the lake is polluted and it has continued to subside because of the serious economic activities that have not been addressed through proper monitoring. As I close, we must be honest and say that the reason we have allowed our country to degenerate in terms of climate is partly because of politics. My colleagues say that we do not need to talk about politics on this issue, but the truth is that we must own up and agree that when previous efforts were directed at addressing some of these issues, it is the same politics that stopped us from positively addressing some of them. You remember when the question of the Mau Complex, during the Coalition Government, was being addressed, it is the same politicians who stopped the then regime from aptly addressing the environmental degradation. Let us be honest as politicians and allow the system and the Government to deal with environmental violators however big they are. Right now, I know that some of the big fish are still destroying the Mau Complex despite the existence of the Government through the Kenya Wildlife Service. Let us allow the new CS to rein in on these people. Let us support him. Politicians should not come up to say that their people are being victimised or that they are being removed from a particular region. Let us give him the mandate and authority so that he can for once address this question. I know he has the temerity and the courage to rein in on some of these people. We expect the illegitimate Government that we have in this country right now to move with speed and implement this particular issue because it is very important and we cannot wait for the right Government to do it."
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