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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you and the Senate Majority Leader for giving me the honour to second such an important amendment Bill in this House. I would also like to thank the Government for ensuring that we move towards beating the constitutional timelines that require that this Bill should have passed by the 27th of this month. Mr. Speaker, Sir, reading this Bill, I see that its objective is mainly to align the existing Act with the new Constitution. Before I comment on various sections in the Bill, allow me to decry the abuse of the environment in this country. No single forest is spared; from the big ones to the medium sized ones up to the smaller ones. If you go to the Mau – remember that the last Coalition Government made it a serious policy to remove squatters from there – this was done with a lot of success. However, when you move around the country, you find that the gains that were made in those five years are slowly being lost. I happen to travel on a weekly basis between this City and my county and, invariably, I have to go through this water tower. It is a pity that the forest in Nandi – the one in Lessos – has been burning for the last three weeks; it is on fire. As recently as when I came to Nairobi on Monday, that forest was still burning. How on earth can the Government allow the forest in Lessos to burn for three weeks without any intervention? How can it happen without the commissioners, the Governor, the Senator and the Members of Parliament (MPs) raising a finger? There might be a deliberate attempt to allow the forest to burn, especially now, so that people The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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