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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, what happens in such a scenario is that the standard, measures, remedies or stop gap measures are prescribed by the same contractor. You will then find, at the final point of inspection, the same guy calling the shots. Unless it is included that from initialization--- I urge Sen. Kibiru, even at a further point, to look at the possibilities of including or seeing which laws we need to amend in a Bill or in an existing Act, that would require that at conceptualization, this becomes a part of contracting. That way, you will find that the problems we are having in places like Mau will be understood; that this country takes the issue of preserving our trees so seriously. Madam Speaker, as I finish, sometime back I visited a small village in Kitui, which is known to be dry and there are no trees. However, I noticed a very unique thing. We entered one village after going through what one would describe as a desert because there were no trees nor greens. Then, suddenly, we came into a small village that was all green, lush and with water. I asked the people there: “How come, in the midst of this entire wilderness, we come here and this place is so green? What have you done?” The local Chief there then told me: “Sen. Wamatangi, one time a long while ago, we had a visitor in this village. The visitor incentivized us by telling me to take my people around and plant trees. For every tree that they plant, she was going to compensate them.” They then took it as an initiative and, after that, they started doing it for themselves. That village became a center of attraction. That visitor was the Late Prof. Wangari Maathai. When she visited that village, she made a difference that, today, you can go around that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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