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    "id": 1034968,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support the Petition by the constituents of Lugari on the company that is engaging in quarrying. With regard to issues about quarrying, the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources - and I have seen the Chair - needs to come up with a common policy especially on the road network towards the quarry site. Many of those people just collect stones and blocks, but do not care about the roads. As a Member of Parliament, you have used resources to prepare that road. You have used funds from the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) to construct the road, but they do not take care of it. We need a policy on holding them accountable whenever they do that. On the second Petition by residents of Tetu, forest evictees have undergone a lot of trauma. It is not just limited to Tetu. It also spills to over into areas where we have forests like Mt. Elgon Forest, where people were evicted from Smith Farm and Soronzo Farm. These are farms with LR numbers. They have been evicted. We brought a Petition to this House. The Committee went to the site and made recommendations, but, unfortunately, those recommendations have not been implemented. The Ministry of Lands appeared before the Departmental Committee on Lands and admitted that they collected money. The Government received money from those communities, especially Soronzo Farm, Smith Farm and others. They got money from poor Kenyans who settled in those farms. Eventually, the Government gazetted those farms, those people were evicted from the forest during the time of the Sabaot Land Defence Forces (SLDF) and are still suffering. Nothing has been done to assist those communities. As the Committee also looks into that, past injustices that have been committed against those communities should be looked into. I hope the Committee on Implementation can look at some of those reports and have them expedited. When you begin a new petition and similar old petitions have not been solved, the House might be working in futility and we do not want that."
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