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    "id": 138847,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/138847/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ngugi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Mwaniki Ngugi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, last year, they were fencing the Aberdares and for about four months, there was a tug of war between the Kenya Forestry Service (KFS) and Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). The KWS wanted the fence where it ought to be to protect the wildlife and cover most of the forest. The KFS wanted it up in the mountain so that they could clear all this area. If this was the time I was in the private sector, people would pay for their sins. Even where that fence was put, it ought to be brought down so that more forest is protected. I will give you an incident. I had a road that I wanted to gravel and put murram. About four kilometers extend from the settlement area into the forest. That was an excuse for the KFS to want to clear four kilometers of trees. I had to say that if the road will cause that havoc, we will stop it in order to save the trees. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, anywhere you go and see a Forest Officer, they are surrounded by loggers. But the current Forest Officer in Njabini is a good man. He is very committed to doing his work planting trees. But anywhere else, you will see Forest Officers surrounded by loggers. You would think that they are politicians. Instead of protecting our forests, they are doing nothing. I am really mad about this thing because any time there is a fire in the forest, it is my people who are mobilised to put it off."
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