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    "id": 637121,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I rise to support this proposed amendment. It provides for a roadmap within which a petition that is coming or emanating from any Kenyan that is dissatisfied with a particular process can be considered. This ensures that due process is guaranteed under the law. We do not want people to be treated in a whimsical manner. We are the representatives of the people and we have the power to alter or decide that a particular place shall be a forest and provide for the money to compensate the people. There must be a due process. I spoke to Hon. Wario and I am sympathetic to him that even a place where he was born was degazetted. It was not a forest when he was born. His ancestral land is now a forest. There was no consultation to ask people whether that place should be a forest. The forest is for the benefit of the people and not meant to injure people in any manner. These are our forests and so, if a place is going to be gazetted, then, due process must be undertaken by those in authority. I support the process. The good thing is that it will come to the National Assembly and the Senate and so, no one will do things in a whimsical manner. It will be subjected to due process."
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