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    "id": 286388,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank the Member for raising that question. I wish she raised that question to the Minister for Forestry and Wildlife. She has acknowledged the work that they are doing. The Government is doing everything in its power, using schools, for example, to carry out tree planting all over the country. Messages are going out in all market centres for people to engage in tree planting. We estimate that for us to increase our forest cover from the current under 2 per cent to the required 10 per cent by the year 2030, we need to plant about 7.6 billion trees. That is a major challenge to us as a country. First, we must fight the people who are continuing to destroy our forests, namely, the people who are cutting trees, particularly indigenous trees in our indigenous forests. Secondly, we must also support the efforts of the Government of evacuating squatters in our forests. You cannot live in a forest and not destroy it. How else do you live as a human being? You need fuel and the only source of fuel inside there is trees. You also need to do some ploughing. You should not play populist politics with conservation. We must lead from the front. I know this because I have been wounded in an effort to try to conserve, but we must pay a heavy price so that we can conserve our forests. This last week, I was in Aberdares where they have constructed a 400 kilometre fence to protect the Aberdares Forest. The community has worked very closely with the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife in doing that exercise, so that the forest is secure."
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