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    "id": 1091696,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. This is a Petition by the residents of Webuye East Sub County on the gazettement of Chetambe (Webuye) Hills Forest vide Legal Notice No.106 proposing a declaration of public forest at Chetambe (Webuye) Hills dated 25th June 2021. Let me start by thanking you for allowing a delegation from Webuye that is in the Speaker’s Gallery, composed of two Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) and elders of the community that is affected by the Act that has led to this Petition. We, the undersigned, on behalf of the residents of Webuye East Sub County, Bungoma County; draw the attention of the House to the following- THAT, the above Legal Notice No.106 under which Chetambe (Webuye) Hill Forest was gazetted, the gazetted forest is to cover a land mass of 406.22 hectares or 1003.36634 acres. THAT, the residents of the area earmarked for gazettement were and are still gravely concerned and shocked at the notice, for the gazetted area is their ancestral land which they have lived on and used for various socio-economic activities, including grazing ground for their livestock since time immemorial. THAT, within the area earmarked, the Tachoni Community and the Kalenjin neighbours entered a covenant dubbed Okhulia Yimba to end inherent acrimony and animosity to achieve peaceful co-existence between the two communities. THAT, at the advent of colonialism in Kenya, the heroic people of Bungoma put up a gallant resistance fight against the advancing colonialists on their land and their land remained sacred to them with immense historical significance. THAT, in 1925, the local inhabitants were forcefully evicted by the colonial government to pave way for white settlers in Chepsaita area, currently in Uasin Gishu County, Ndalu, Naitiri, Lugari and Kiminini among others and as a consequence they were settled in the area then referred to as East Kitosi, the present Webuye East Sub County, the gazetted area included."
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