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    "id": 616849,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/616849/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Makenga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Makenga Katemi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support this very important Bill, the Forest Conservation and Management Bill. I would like, from the outset, to say that it is very timely. Our forests are being dilapidated in a very fast manner. The way they are being dilapidated is a threat to our country. It is important to maintain forests. As the last speaker has said, forests should be maintained for sustainability. They should not only be for the current generation, but also for the future generation. I have a passion for planting trees. For the last four years I have planted, in every rainy season, 10,000 seedlings. In any subsequent season, I usually plant 10,000 seedlings. In other words, for the last four years, I have been able to plant close to about 80,000 trees. Those trees have grown and can be harvested. I encourage my constituents, particularly the people who come from the mountain areas of Kaiti, Ewani and Kilungu, to continue planting trees particularly in this time of El Nino rains. We should make use of the El Nino rains which are in abundance and continue planting trees up to February. Forests are a source of rain. They are also water towers. It is, therefore, important for forests to be established in areas where trees can grow. This will help increase the forest cover."
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