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    "id": 679465,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "ahead and clean up the Bill to define public forest. So, the amendments that have been proposed by the Senate mainly intend to clean up those problems. I must speak to the Senate’s amendment to the Third Schedule. The Senate is trying to do what some of our colleagues tried to do when we were on the Third Reading of this Bill, namely, trying to de-gazette forests by amending the Third Schedule. We should not, as a House, support this measure because there is a clear way of de-gazetting a forest and people should go through that process rather than using the Floor of this House to de-gazette forests. The Senate tried to de-gazette 13 gazetted forests through the amendments to the Third Schedule. If we declined that attempt from our colleagues here, we should not allow the Senate to use the backdoor to de- gazette forests. I wish to state that this time the Senate has done an extremely good job in cleaning up this Bill. It is not that we disagree with the Senate amendments. We are not fully in agreement with the amendments especially when they are too wordy. So, we have rejected the amendments so that we can mediate in a more neutral way. For example, in declining the job of a director to the KFS Board, the Senate has given 13 conditions under which somebody is not qualified to be a director. Most of our Acts have only five conditions namely bankruptcy, violation of the Constitution, mental incapability, among others, but the Senate has gone very far to give 13 conditions. We feel that although they are trying to enhance accountability and transparency in choosing persons to serve in this Board, they are over-legislating and giving too many parameters that can be covered under normal conditions with a maximum of five instead of 13 conditions. We applaud the Senate for the improvement in reviewing Bills and helping in better quality legislation, but we have to disagree with them on these few conditions so that we get a better Bill. With those few remarks, I second."
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