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    "id": 408208,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, let me first and foremost thank the Chairperson of the Committee for having at least achieved one very important aim of ensuring that the logging is suspended and of course getting the Statement. From the outset, I want to note some anomalies in this Report because I have tangible evidence from the licence that I was given. The acreage in question is not what is indicated here. In actual fact, it is 15.72 hectares. Hon. Speaker, from my knowledge in Botany and Zoology, it is not possible to plant small seedlings in between tall trees in the forest. So, there is now way the KFS will convince this House that it is possible for them to cut very long trees and replace them with small seedlings. It is common knowledge and even a Standard One pupil knows that competition for light cannot allow those seedlings to grow. So, a total clearance is done so that replacement is done. Actually, the licence talks of clearance of acreage and not cutting of selective trees. On the issue of logging without the NEMA Report, according to the Environmental Management and Conservation Act, 1989, an EIA has to be done first and given to those that are licensed to log the forest. This was, therefore, a fraudulent allocation because it did not have an EIA that will show the impact of clearing the 25 acres. This is a lot of forest land to be cleared in a place where at the moment rivers are drying up. The water streams that have intakes in the same forest are rebelling because the levels are down. Some are shifting to different rivers because the others have dried up. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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