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    "id": 1142554,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Outa",
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        "legal_name": "Fredrick Otieno Outa",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to lay the following Petition report on the Table of the Senate today 10th February, 2022: Report on the Standing Committee of the National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations. A Petition to the Senate concerning the circumstances which lead to the murder of Ms. Joannah Stutchbury. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you would recall, this Petition regarding the murder of Ms. Joannah Stutchbury, a protector of environment and natural resources was brought to the Senate by Sen. Abshiro Halake, on 4th August, 2021 and consequently it was committed to the Standing Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations. The Petition prayers to the Senate were assisted by the Senate through an investigation on the circumstances leading to the alleged murder of Ms. Stutchbury and other environmentalists and conservationists in the country and appropriate recommendations on the findings, and on the alleged perpetrators. They wanted us: - (i)To make a call to the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and Kenya Forest Service to revoke and gather parcels of the Kiambu Forest Reserve; (ii)Appropriate recommendations for the protection of the lives of environmentalists and conservationists in Kenya; and (iii)Review relevant policies and existing legislations with a view to enhance the protection of all forest lands and wildlife migratory routes and corridors in Kenya, with a view to shield them from land grabbers. In order to address the prayers of the petitioners, the Committee met with various stakeholders in relation to the Petition who included- (i)The petitioners, Conservation Alliance of Kenya (ii)The Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Forestry (iii)The Director of Kenya Forest Services (iv)Kiambu County Commissioner of Kiambu and many others. During the Committee investigation into the murder, the Committee established that on 15th July, 2021, an environmentalist, Ms. Joannah Stutchbury was shot dead outside her home in what appeared to be outright murder. It is of importance to note that after meeting the petitioners they were requested to furnish the Committee with a list of other people who had ever been threatened but that was not forthcoming. That, Ms. Stutchbury lived in a land which borders Kiambu Central Forest block known as LR No.21179 F/R No.284/108 which was gazetted as a Forest Reserve vide Proclamation No.44 of 1932."
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