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    "id": 1266444,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1266444/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Elgeyo Marakwet County, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caroline Ng’elechei",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to support the Petition by Hon. Jematiah on the gazettement of community land. For those of us who live in counties with massive forest cover, such occurrences are not isolated. There is a story in Elgeyo Marakwet of a forest called Cheptonge whereby the senior person at that time fought with a white settler. The white settler punished the whole community by gazetting their land to be a forest, and they were displaced to other places. Such innocent communities and people who might not have access to what is happening should not be intimidated or displaced by gazetting their land. As much as we want to grow trees and to have more forest cover in Kenya, we also need to have a place for those who are taking care of the forests or for the reason of growing forests to be there. We cannot displace human beings to grow trees that should benefit the same human beings. I, therefore, wish to support her Petition. Thank you."
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