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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi (",
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    "content": "Nominated, ANC): Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Pursuant to Standing Order 44(2) (c), I wish to request for a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, regarding an undertaking by the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Forestry, regarding Shiru and Shaviringa settlement schemes in Kakamega Forest, but located in Vihiga County. Hon. Speaker, on Thursday, 11th February 2021, the Cabinet Secretary represented by the Chief Administrative Secretary undertook to, among other things, convene a meeting of stakeholders among them the Ministry, the Kenya Forest Service, the Governor of Vihiga County and Members of Parliament from the Vihiga County to resolve the matter of Shiru and Shaviringa settlement schemes in Kakamega Forest. Hon. Speaker, it is against this background that I seek a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources to explain the status of the one-month undertaking by the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Forestry in regard to Shiru and Shaviringa settlement schemes in Kakamega Forest, noting the suffering the resident of the schemes are facing and whether any steps have been taken to resolve the matter. Hon. Speaker, I want you to give direction because this seems to be the trend where Chief Administrative Secretaries appear before committees, make verbal undertakings and some of those verbal undertakings are never implemented. This is the case. I presented a Question before this Committee four months ago and the CS, through the CAS, made an undertaking that they will appear again before the Committee to give a status report. It is now four months. I have not received anything from the Committee and I have not heard anything from the Ministry. So, that is becoming a trend where CASs, particularly, give undertakings which they do not implement."
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