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    "id": 788391,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Kibunguchy",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Wamalwa Kibunguchy",
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    "content": "We are going to plant trees. If we sit here and think we are going to survive in this country without planting trees, we are cheating ourselves. We will be living in what the English people call ‘fool’s paradise’. We must plant trees. Let us do it as a policy, as a deliberate move. I would even like to see chiefs, assistant chiefs and all these cadres of people, one of their appraisal points being how many trees they have planted in their areas of jurisdiction. Unless we do that, we are going nowhere. I was talking about hydro. I was just going to mention one river, namely, River Nzoia. It borders many areas, including my area of Likuyani. On the upper part, it is a very nice river, but once it goes down around Budalang’i and Teso, it is a very destructive river. I think there was a proposal that we dam this river. Once we dam it, we can produce electricity. We can do many other things. Yesterday, we were talking about irrigation as we discussed the Bill on irrigation. We can do all those things. This is a river that is not exploited. Let me finish by just saying one other thing. We must again be mindful where we have natural resources that the local community benefits. That must be crucial, because we are going to have more and more resources in this country. Let us mind about our local communities where we have natural resources. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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