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    "id": 1181028,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kathuri",
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        "legal_name": "Murungi Kathuri",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to comment on the Statement by Sen. Kibwana. When I saw this in the news the other day, I was really concerned as a Kenyan. If you saw how that tree was loaded into the trucks to be ferried into the United States of America (USA), you would wonder whether they are going to plant the whole of it or what value and of use will it be. NEMA is charged with the management of our environmental issues. No Kenyan could have accepted that the baobab trees be transported to the USA if they were asked through public participation. The first thing that we need to know is how the merchant was allowed to uproot the tree and how the environmental impact assessment license was issued in order for us to get to the root of this matter. There are so many projects that have been allowed to happen in very funny ways including building on river lines. One wonders how these licenses were issued to the developers. We could be sitting on gold through the baobab tree. If you travel towards the Coast from Ukambani, you will realize that many trees are dead, fallen and dry. The baobab has more than 300 uses. If we try and tap it, as Kenyans, and get to know its uses, the old ones can be harvested as we plant more. In forest management, which am privy to sit in their classes, we allow sustainable harvesting of any species. Sometimes those trees get old, dry up and die and are of no help. We can investigate through the Kenya Trypanosomiasis Research Institute (KETRI) so as to know the uses of those trees then they can be harvested sustainably. It is worrying to the Kenyans that baobab can be uprooted and carried in wholesome to the USA. I will be interested to know when the Cabinet Secretary (CS) will be appearing before the Committee to explain the circumstances under which this important species was harvested. I thank Sen. Kibwana for this Statement. She has actually brought it ahead of me and I will support it to the deepest end of the investigations. I request that she keeps me informed."
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