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    "id": 615615,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, our Committee listened to the public. We got input from private tree growers association who are people who have plantations of different types of trees on their farms for commercial purposes and for electric poles. We also listened to indigenous community representatives, the KFS and to professional foresters. The input that we have received and we are struggling to incorporate in this is the fact that despite the change of names from “Kenya Forest Guards” to the “Kenya Forest Service”, the interpretation of Service has not been there. The KFS and the Government continue to do inhumane evictions of forest dwellers. We are looking at possibilities of more humane ways of evicting persons in the forests. I mentioned that this Bill needs to incorporate different land tenure systems in which forests are located. We will urge the House to remove the mention of national and county forest because whether a forest is national or county, it is a public forest. So, there should be no need to mention in this Bill about a county forest or a national forest. Whether the forest is on community land or on a county alienated area, it is still public. We will urge the House to remove the words “national” and “county” and replace them with “public forest”. This is a very important component because you will see that in the interactions at the Senate, they talk a lot about taking over the management of national forests in their counties."
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