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    "id": 590524,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/590524/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I appreciate the work done by the Chairman and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources to submit the response to the key questions that I sought. However, I need further clarification on the first question where the Chairman has said that the said charcoal is a result of areas being cleared for irrigation. How do we know whether this is true? Where are the minutes of the said committees that legalized the areas to be cleared? Secondly, the Chairman said that charcoal is also being produced in Turkana, West Pokot and other counties, but he has not given us the list of all the culprits who have been caught ferrying charcoal from those counties. He also said that there is no charcoal burning in Elgeyo-Marakwet County outside gazzetted areas. However, he provided a list of persons prosecuted between July and September 2015 in Elgeyo- Marakwet County. Is that not a contradiction? Lastly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have also cited an Act of 2005 which state that the functions were devolved with coming of the New Constitution. One such function that the Ministry devolved was via Legal Notice No.137 about Forest Extension Service, which you have just cited. However, in answer (f) which the Vice Chairman never read, they still hold on this function while he has just said that it was devolved. He has said that the Ministry, through the Kenya Forest Service, is in the process of finalising transition implementation and so on and so forth. However, we need to be clear on that. When the function was handed over, why is he saying that they can still be managed from Nairobi?"
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