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"content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I urge you to give us a few minutes to ventilate on the Petition because the matter is very sensitive. Hon. Dukicha is my neighbour. The only economic activities of the people we represent are camels, cows and goats. Forests are rarely found in that region but somebody somewhere within the Government, without public participation as demanded by the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, decided to curve out Wayu as a forest. We want the Committee to go to the ground, through the facilitation of Parliament, and see the number of livestock that we have in that region vis-a-vis what you would expect in a forest. That is how we found ourselves with serious problems in places like Mpeketoni and elsewhere. Carving out a particular ecosystem meant for pastoralism and declaring it a forest reserve, is denying the residents of that area their only source of livelihood. Unless someone wants to tell us that this is the end of pastoralism in Kenya and that region, one should not even have thought of creating a forest in an area that is inhabited by livestock keepers. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we, therefore, want the Committee to take this matter very seriously. I want your direction regarding facilitation of the Committee to go to Wayu and talk to the people of Wayu in Galole Constituency, Bura and Garsen constituencies and then proceed to Garissa Town and Ijara County to collect information, so that it can reach a decision to revoke that particular Gazette Notice and give the land back to the people of Wayu, so that they can rear more cattle, goats and camels. Thank you, hon. Speaker."
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