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    "id": 814765,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you have visited the lower and upper sides of Embobut Forest and Embobut River. You know how the River is important for irrigation in both Elgeyo-Marakwet and Baringo counties. When it rains, you know the importance of Kerio River to West Pokot and Turkana counties. There are also irrigation activities that are going on in Tot, Lodwar and Weiwei. I believe that with such a legal framework, the county governments partnering with the national Government can engage in important irrigation activities that will protect and provide food security for the rest of the country. That is why that link is important. Those of us who live in the higher areas like Mau, Mt. Elgon, Cherangany, Mt. Kenya and Aberdares must be given the necessary resources to conserve the environment. We must also create partnership between citizens and the Government. I am saying this because, the other day, I went to Mau Forest to look after local residents whose houses were being burned in the name of conservation. The Government cannot correct one wrong by committing another. You cannot brutalize people to conserve the environment. You cannot also destroy the environment to save a few. We must save the whole generation and achieve intergenerational equity for many years. To achieve that, it is important for that balance to be observed. The Government should sit the people down and find a solution, so that we do not have a situation like what is being projected in Narok County. It should be one community verses the other community or these people verses the other ones. We want a harmonious county where people sit down and look at issues as they are, without looking at them parochially or in a narrow sense for personal interests. As the Senate, we have dual responsibility. I am here as the Senate Majority Leader, but I am the Senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet County. Even as the Senate, we are The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
}