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    "content": "If Panpaper Mills is resurrected today, the national Government must come up with a policy on how to compensate counties like yours to allow logging to go and sustain the factory and, more importantly, to continue to grow. Like the Sultan of Zanzibar, a man who did not go to school two centuries ago, if he was able to decree that if you cut one tree, you plant two. Today you do not just cut one tree, you cut it and uproot the stem and go away and nobody cares. This is not good for our country. We must all stand up to be counted. Lastly, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to encourage Members of this House, that this Bill is giving very strong authority to our county assemblies. Our county assemblies have limited capacity in legislation and oversight. I want to encourage Members that upon passage of this Bill, let us take it upon ourselves, to go back to our assemblies and address and inform our assemblers on what this law is all about and how beneficial it can be and will be to our counties. If trees can be planted and can grow in the Sahara, they can grow anywhere else. I am sure if this country is determined to change the face of our environment. We can be like South Korea and Japan which at Independence in the 1950s had 7 per cent forest cover. Today, South Korea has 70 per cent forest cover. Japan has 78 per cent forest cover. They have more than 100 million people yet they have a land mass smaller than Kenya’s. So, we can do this, informed by the fact that only 23 per cent of our land mass is arable. The rest is either arid and semi-arid land (ASAL), arid or semi desert. If we wake up to this reality, we will bequeath a good country to the future. If we do not, we will be judged very harshly. I want to urge my colleague from Nandi to save the rare antelopes by talking to the arsonists to stop what they are doing. I beg to support."
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