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    "id": 1271986,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Soipan Tuya",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry",
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        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir and the hon. Senator. With the lift of the ban on logging, where we are starting from is to clear a backlog of saw millers of different formations. When the ban was imposed in 2018, some saw millers had been allocated with plantations. They had paid but they were caught up in the moratorium and then they left their products in the forest. Some of them have rotten away. It is the colossal loses that I was talking about that have been occasioned to saw millers. Some of the saw millers at the point of imposition of the ban in 2018, had paid but had not cut them. So, the trees are still standing at different stages of maturity. Some of them had not paid but had been allocated. They were at different levels. So, that backlog is what we are dealing with first so that we clear with the saw millers that had been engaged through the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) at that time but were caught up with the moratorium, before we embarked on a new phase of 5000 hectares of harvest that will be done. If I got you right Senator, you are raising a question of some new faces who were not part of the initial engagement with the Kenya Forest Service. Unasema kwamba kunawatu ambao hawakuwa na plantations kule Embu katika Irangi Forest na wamepewaidhini ya kukata miti. I think that is specific. The intention is to only allow for the saw millers who had engaged with the KFS in 2018. So, please, I have the Acting Chief Conservator of Forest here with me. Let us engage with the specifics. If there is such an activity going on, then it is irregular. This is because the saw millers who need to be dealt with through the backlog process are known. They should not be new faces but only those who were engaged initially. I thank you."
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