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    "id": 818594,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/818594/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": "In Madagascar, there is a plant called rosy periwinkle that has changed the chances of children surviving the cancer called Leukemia. In Ethiopia, there is a plant called endod that has helped them significantly. It is just a plant that women used to clean their shawls with, but now it has helped them in unclogged sewers even in the United States of America. Here in Kenya, we have the Mwarubaini and plants that we have not seen. Most of them are found in our forests. I want to speak to the issue of indigenous trees. Many times when I am doing access roads in my constituency, specifically Mfangano Island that has a lot of indigenous trees, I sometimes feel pain when we have to bring down a tree of over 100 years. This is because we do not have very clear regulations to guide us when we are moving in. It does not matter what amount of reforestation we do, we can never replace a tree that is 100 years old. Not in my lifetime. So, we need to take this issue seriously. I want to thank the committee for notifying the role of women and youth groups especially on issues of conservation. I want to encourage that once this Report passes, we will need to put resources into women and youth groups so that they help especially in conservation of forests. There are areas that we need to gazette that are not already gazetted especially portions of land in Mfangano Island and other areas in my constituency that have amazing trees. When we gazette them, we need to compensate the owners of the lands. I also have another island that has amazing trees, called Atego Island. Fortunately, they are not habited, but we do not know how long before people start deforesting those islands."
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