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    "id": 616831,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "the time, it has negative effects. People complain about the benefits. Given that this is actually a resource Bill, we should introduce a very clear way of how communities will share the benefits accruing from the resources. We should indicate clearly whatever percentage the local community will get so that the resource is seen as a blessing rather than a punishment. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have a big problem because this Bill indicates that to participate in harvesting forest products, we should have a certain capacity. I have a problem there. We should introduce a classification of how one qualifies, for instance, taking into consideration the various categories of people. We should have people with disability, youth and women in line with the procurement law. We should not close our eye here and lump all of them as one group. You must have a certain level of financial capacity, or you must have a certain level of technical capacity. That will actually lock out the youths and yet they are the ones who are a real threat to our forest cover. When the youth are not involved in harvesting those products, they will turn to illegal logging. That illegal logging will not end unless we have an elaborate plan to bring the youth into the programme of sharing benefits, especially when we are giving people contracts to do logging."
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