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    "content": "food for thought, especially, for my friend from Kinangop who thinks that we are sleeping. Between 1932 and 2001, since gazettement of our forest in 1932, we have lost 93,000 hectares of our forest but listen to this: 63,000 hectares of that was lost in one year; in 2001. So, as we address these issues, we must know that the destruction of forests started way back. What the NARC Government and this Coalition Government is doing is trying to correct the mistakes that have taken place in the last 25 or so years. That is not an excuse but all I am saying is that we have tremendous problems and I could not have put it much better than the hon. Member for Naivasha, Mr. Mututho. He put it right. As we read these headlines, we know that our people are dying and our rivers are drying. What do we do? We give pittance to my Ministry and I am expected to deliver! With all these headlines, the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife gets pittance. In fact, we got less money than we got last year. So I ask myself: “Has the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance been with us? Is he reading these headlines?” So, we must address the issue. You cannot have your cake and eat it! We create institutions and, straightaway, we are destroying those institutions. I think we must respect the laws that we have. Take, for instance, our conflicts in the wildlife sector. We have said that animals within the national parks must be protected. But what do we do? We take all our livestock into the national parks. That is happening all over our national parks and, as a result, we are losing a lot of foreign exchange from our tourists. The tourists are not coming because they do not want to come and see goats and cows. They want to come and see the “Big Five”. So, what we have done is that we are breaking the laws that we have created ourselves. As much as I am a veterinarian and I have loved animals all these years--- Yes, but I must obey the laws that this House has established. So, it is a difficult thing and we have to choose what to do. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was interested to hear what the Chairman of the Parliamentary Group would say. He recognized that we did not receive enough funding. All I have heard from my colleagues is that, apart from everything else, we have been given less funding. Let us get enough funds and we will deliver!"
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