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    "id": 679464,
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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. Speaker, I beg to second this Report from my Committee on the consideration of Senate amendments. As a matter of notice, this is a new way of moving the Report, so you should communicate the same to all Chairs. I hope you have heard what I have said. The mode of moving this Report is new to me, so you should communicate to the other Chairs. I want to congratulate the Senate. I must agree that the last two Bills that the Senate has looked at, namely, this Bill and the Water Bill, we see a massive change from the Senate in terms of value addition. It is very clear that the Senate’s legal team is definitely giving good advice to the Senate and they are able to streamline the Bill in such a way that you can see their input is actually valuable. I say this because in the past, all the Senate was fixated about was to give opportunity to the Council of Governors (CoG), but now you can see where we have left out something, they do clean-ups and give us good ideas. We must say that the Senate is actually doing the job which they are supposed to do. The Leader of the Majority Party has gone through many of the Senate amendments that we have rejected. Basically, our reasons for rejection are either constitutional or based on best practice. The bulk of the amendments that we have agreed to are on the change of the head of the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) from “Director-General” to “Chief Conservator of Forests”. Kenyans love the title “Director-General,” but it does not say exactly what that person does. The head of the KFS is the Chief Conservator of Forests to ensure that we meet our constitutional threshold of 10 per cent forest cover, and that we have plantation forests that are well taken care of. So, the bulk of those amendments relate to the change of the title of the head of the institution of the KFS from “Director-General” to “Chief Conservator of Forests”. In terms of clean-ups, one example is on Clauses 2 and 9. Whereas the National Assembly defined forest to be a public forest whether it is national or county, we did not go The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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