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    "id": 148111,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maj. Sugow",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Public Service",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Ahmed Sugow",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Motion. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Mau Forest water catchment area is not only a Rift Valley problem or a Kenyan problem. It is also not just a regional problem but an international problem. If that water catchment area is destroyed, as is happening now, many livelihoods and our basic fabric as a nation is threatened. I think it is a high time this Report was fast-tracked and all stakeholders involved to ensure that we move forward. Every person who currently lives today, whether they have academic papers or not, have a right to a living. I think it is important that, as a Government, we come out clearly and put in place measures to compensate and move the people who are living in Mau Forest to other alternative lands as quickly as possible. This is a situation that warrants the establishment of a fund to support those who are leaving the Mau Forest so that they can move elsewhere. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think we also need to remove ethnicity and politics out of this problem. This is our problem as Kenyans. We must approach this issue with the soberness that it deserves. We must also take responsibility. We should not blame those leaders who threaten to take bold steps which are necessary for this country. Many of us have a tendency to criticise those who have the responsibility to take action. Every now and then, they are threatened politically. This is what is stopping us from getting a solution to this problem and every one of us, as leaders of this nation, has a responsibility to co-operate, to ensure that we get a solution. We should get a solution to save the Mau Forest. We are running out of time. I beg to support."
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