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    "id": 188223,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Koech",
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        "legal_name": "David Kibet Koech",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like also to stand and support the Member who moved this Motion. It is a very important Motion for this country. Forests are an important resource to our country. There is desertification and you cannot dissociate desertification from de-forestation. Forests in this country are threatened by human inhabitation and charcoal burning. So many people rely on wood fuel as a source of energy. As a community, I would like to remove the notion that some people do not want the forests to be protected and reserved. What we stand for and we ask the Government to be committed to is that there are human beings staying in those forests. They need to be resettled elsewhere. So, the Government should identify alternative land and resettle these people there. That is our stand. We hope that the Government is committed to that cause. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we would like to request that this problem be sorted out once and for all. Once these people are moved out of the forests after they are given alternative land, the Government or the Ministry should ensure that all the forest areas are fenced off. I applaud what they have done in Aberdare areas. I am saying this because the so called beacons are not even known by the local people in our communities. Let the boundary be clearly marked for the people not move into the forest. Most Kenyans today still rely on fuel wood as a source of energy. In order for us to save this country, the Government should think seriously on ways and means of providing alternative sources of energy to our people. Rural electrification and the use of biogas should be intensified to make these source of energy affordable to the common mwananchi. We would like also the Ministry to encourage the many Kenyans because the areas demarcated as forests are not enough to produce enough trees in this country. We would like the Ministry to also encourage Kenyans to plant tree in their own plots. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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