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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kizito",
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        "legal_name": "Justus Kizito Mugali",
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    "content": "of this nation we also lose hope. This will go a long way in neutralizing tension in the country. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, you will realise that when there was a contradiction between the Rt. Hon. Prime Minister and His Excellency the President there was a lot of tension across the nation. We do not want to revert to that kind of thing. We want them to talk and sort out issues without doing it in public. Anybody who has been mentioned in corruption should take the first step to step down to allow others to investigate them and establish the truth. If we do not do this, we are setting a very wrong precedent where Ministers who are appointed through the National Accord feel like they are permanent. How will you supervise them if they cannot be shaken a bit? We want only people of good morals and who are clean to be in the Cabinet and in the Government so that all of us can have confidence in our Government so that we can move on. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Presidential Address did not touch on environmental issues; especially afforestation of the Mau Forest and the resettlement of those who were driven out of the forest. The President should be a little bit serious on this. Let us resettle our people so that everybody can be happy in this country. We have just heard that there is a child who passed away in Mau as a result of pneumonia. These people should be resettled. Alongside this, I will not sit down before talking about environmental issues, especially our equatorial forests. The only indigenous equatorial forest--- I am happy, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, that you are a specialist in that area. You know Kakamega Forest is an indigenous forest and it has been okay. It is the only forest that has been well protected by the residents especially those from Shinyalu. However, there is rampant logging in that forest. Big lorries ferry logs from that forest. They are actually interfering with our indigenous trees. There are places called Ikuyo and Lubao where there is rampant logging. The forest officers in Shechelu are the ones who are involved in the logging. However, we cannot find information on who sends them to carry out logging in that forest. I urge the Government to move very fast and stop this logging so that we can preserve that forest. Environment is life and we would not like Kakamega Forest to go the Mau way. With those few remarks, I beg to support this Motion."
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