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    "content": "whole exercise is left to the Kenya Forest Service and the national Government. The communities that have participated in protecting these forests are locked out. I hope that the county environmental committees that are being set up, courtesy of this Bill, will take up that challenge. A lot of issues have been mentioned about forest fires that have been witnessed in this country courtesy of the long dry spell and my county has not been spared. One of the swamps in my county caught fire the other day but it is important that Members of this House are factual. Some of the things that are being reported in the Press may not reflect the truth. We know that it was accidental and we have asked the Government and security agencies to investigate. We know Kingwal Swamp and Sitatunga are a heritage for this country and also for our county. It would be wrong for anybody to imagine that residents of Nandi do not understand the meaning and importance of protecting this environment. Therefore, as a leader from Nandi County, I want to be on record to say that we are protecting the forest, we are investigating the matter and hopefully, we will know what really happened. If it is accidental, we will leave it at that, but we are protecting the forest because we know it benefits the citizens of the county and it is an important resource that we are protecting for the people of Kenya and the whole globe. We look forward to getting this done. I support."
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