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    "id": 93318,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/93318/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Wekesa",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 209,
        "legal_name": "Noah Mahalang'ang'a Wekesa",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my colleague has presented a very good budget, but, indeed, like many of our Ministries, he requires more money because as I have said, issues of environment are important. There are many challenges facing this Ministry. I am thinking of one issue that I want to speak about; the way we manage our waste in Kenya. The Minister has done very well to address the issue of Nairobi River, but as we know, Nairobi River has been polluted by Kenyans who live in this city. Indeed, it is not just Nairobi River; most of the rivers within our urban areas have been polluted. We could approach this issue through education and public awareness through the media, including radio. This has been done in many countries including Rwanda. I had the opportunity to visit Rwanda twice last year and noted that Kigali City is so clean that you would think that you are walking in a European city. We could start that here. The Minister is very well known by the “Michuki rules”. I would urge him to start “Michuki rules” in issues of waste management; that every Kenyan should not throw litter. Every Kenyan should be aware that every time you throw litter, you are increasing pollution. This will not call for too much money. It would need just a few advertisements on radio every week or day and we could achieve what Rwanda has achieved. Indeed, we would do this not just in Nairobi City, but everywhere. This Ministry is a crosscutting Ministry. It affects my own Ministry, the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Tourism. I would like to state it here very clearly that I will work very well with the Minister in addressing some of these issues. Issues of climate change are not understood by Kenyans. Indeed, this year, we have had a lot of rain. I do not know what the total amount of rainfall is, but I know that in my area, we have had probably three times the rain that we normally get. It is important that we tell Kenyans that climate change is real and already here. We are getting a lot of flooding and extended drought and this affects the way we do our agriculture."
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