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"speaker_name": "Baringo South, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Kamuren",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to thank Hon. Irene Mayaka for this amendment Bill. We became interested in the Bill when she brought it to the House. Later, it came to our Committee. When this Bill was brought to our Committee, we saw its interest and importance. After collecting views and memoranda from different stakeholders, we discovered that the eucalyptus tree has become a problem across Kenya. Over 100,000 hectares of land in this country has this type of tree. People earn from them. The Environmental Management and Coordination (Amendment) Bill does not give authority to the Cabinet Secretary to uproot all the trees. It only gives him permission to make regulations on the introduction, growth, and maintenance of this tree, in reference to other trees that are dangerous to our people, production, and economy like the"
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