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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ruto",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, nevertheless, I will proceed to support the Motion. The question of environmental conservation should not be mixed up with the impunity of the Government. The Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, the Office of the Prime Minister and a variety of Ministries have gone ahead to operate outside the established law. We wish to protect the environment. But we must also respect the provisions of the Constitution and, particularly, Section 75, which talks about the sanctity of the ownership of land. We say that the Government has overriding powers to, compulsorily, acquire land. But we must follow the provisions of Cap.295, Laws of Kenya, which stipulates that any compulsory acquisition of land must follow the clear provisions contained in that particular chapter. I want to ask that in the process of conserving the environment, and especially forests, the human element be looked into. We should not continue to create conflicts between human activities and the conservation of the environment. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Government may be having good intentions. But the way it has been going about it has been in a manner that is very well known to Mr. Michuki. He carried it over from the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security, when he used to raid The East African Standard newspapers. He has proceeded to do similar things, even when he is operating at the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources."
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