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    "id": 1077066,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1077066/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maara, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kareke Mbiuki",
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        "legal_name": "Japhet M. Kareke Mbiuki",
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    "content": "We have challenges of access to forest roads. The Committee noted that most of the forest roads are in a very bad state. This makes the forests inaccessible. This increases insecurity and the risk of illegal logging. Unlike in national parks and game reserves, maintenance of roads in the forest is not funded by the Road Maintenance Levy Fund. In some regions in the country, forest roads are critical links between villages, for example, Embobut Forest roads in Elgeyo-Marakwet County. The Committee noted that there is need for Kenya Roads Board Act, 1999, to be amended to include Kenya Forest Service (KFS) as a designated road agency, so that the Kenya Roads Board can provide it with funds to maintain forest roads. This is an issue which the Committee has also taken up. We will introduce an amendment in this Act to ensure that KFS or the roads inside our forests are also taken care of. We should bear in mind that logging has been banned. So, KFS has no access to funds."
}