Aden Bare Duale

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Oct 2024 in National Assembly: In a month’s time, we will add another 10,000 youths to the programme. Nairobi will have 20,000 young people doing that job. We will then go to other five cities. By December, 139,000 young people in all our 47 counties and constituencies will be engaged. We have no choice but to accept the fact that climate change is real and, therefore, we must have clear policies for climate mitigation and adaptation, as a country. Hon. Timothy Wanyonyi also sought our indulgence to enumerate the entities that discharge effluent in rivers and make a policy statement outlining the penalties imposed on ... view
• 2 Oct 2024 in National Assembly: Allow me to now highlight the fact that forest cultivation in Kenya faces several challenges despite the framework and the laws that this House has put in place. We experience forest degradation due to unsustainable cultivation practices. Poor management and lack of enforcement have led to deforestation in some of our areas. I am here with the Chief Forest Conservator. We have agreed in principle that it will not be business as usual for our rangers and foresters. From the top to our citizens, all of us must protect our ecosystem and biodiversity. Enforcement is a key issue because the ... view
• 2 Oct 2024 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Hon. KJ asked a very good question. I will look for the Motion. The Committee on Implementation need to invite me and the rest who are concerned but I want to assure him that there are many places to plant trees in Nairobi. We have started with City Park Forest. City Park Forest is now under the KFS. The title belongs to the Ministry of National Treasury and Economic Planning. It belongs to us. Karura Forest is over congested. In one weekend, City Park is visited by between 5,000 and 10,000 people. Therefore, we want ... view
• 2 Oct 2024 in National Assembly: Secondly, we have an engagement with Kenya Power Company and the roads agencies. There is no way they can come to your residence or estate to make sure that the electricity lines are in order and in the process cut down trees. The law does not allow. The problem in this country is that people do not want to follow the law. There is a lot of impunity. Even when you construct your residential home on a half-acre piece of land, the law requires that you leave a certain percentage of that land for growing trees and grass. However, because ... view
• 2 Oct 2024 in National Assembly: Hon. Tim, I am happy that as a ranking Member of Nairobi Members of Parliament, you, Hon. KJ and Hon. Beatrice Elachi have stood firm and gone on record that you will stand with us. The Nairobi River Commission was not under my Ministry but now it is. You have stood with the multi-agency team, the President and all of us. Please, help us clean the Nairobi River. I will talk more about this when answering Hon. TJ Kajwang’ Question concerning Nairobi River. view
• 2 Oct 2024 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Member for Nakuru County, my sister, seeks to know the initiatives that the Ministry has undertaken to preserve our heritage, wetlands and catchment areas. At the policy level, the ministry has put in place the National Wetland Conservation and Management Policy, 2009, which guides us on use of our wetlands, and sustainable management in the country. The policy also ensures sustainable ecological and socio-economic functioning of wetlands for the present and future generations. The ministry is now implementing that policy jointly with other stakeholders in order to protect and safeguard wetlands. Secondly, the ministry has developed ... view
• 2 Oct 2024 in National Assembly: County, Lake Baringo in Baringo County, Lake Naivasha in Nakuru County and Tana Delta in Tana River County. In order to promote the wise use and conservation of our wetlands and all the associated resources, my ministry is implementing the management plans for several wetlands in our country. I do not want to read out the list because it is long. However, I have provided the Member with the list. They include Gambella Swamp Integrated in Meru, Lake Kenyatta Management Plan in Lamu, Tana Delta Management Plan in Tana River, Sabaki Estuary Management Plan in Kilifi, Lake Jipe in Taveta, ... view
• 2 Oct 2024 in National Assembly: associations. A good example is a group that runs Karura Forest in collaboration with KFS. They are spread across the country. One hundred and seventy-five of them are active, 17 of them are inactive, and 41 of them are moderately active. There is a total of 185,535 members. All these community forest associations are duly registered with the Registrar of Societies and, therefore, have legal backing. They live next to our forests and help us to protect and conserve forests, which are our national heritage. Community forest associations engage in forest management activities through what we call ‘participatory forest management ... view
• 2 Oct 2024 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me start with my very good friend Member for Funyula. I miss you also. He was my colleague in the Departmental Committee on Health. I hope you are still there. At least you are talking about hills. We have heard so much about mountains. Today is about hills. Where the Temporary Speaker and I come from, there are small hills; the ant-hills. They are not as big as the ones in Busia. Our programme for forest restoration – the 15 billion trees programme – also covers private land. If those hills are available, myself, ... view
• 2 Oct 2024 in National Assembly: ASALs. There are many trees that grow in our areas but we do not know their value. I have asked the Speaker to arrange for me a Kamukunji, maybe later in the month so that we talk to Members about the presidential 15 billion tree-growing programme. Under the environment budget in your National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), you can pick 30 per cent fruit trees and take them to rural constituencies. You share them out amongst women for them to plant. That will help us not only in reforestation of our country but also to reduce poverty within our ... view