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    "id": 679490,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyamweya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 391,
        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, another point which this Bill brings out clearly is to remove the word “Director General” and call this person “Chief Conservator of Forests”. This means that he is the CEO who has been given the mandate to run the forest. Every year, he should tell us what he has done to improve forest coverage. There should be returns every year to show that trees have been planted in certain areas. Normally, when people see a forest, what comes in mind is how to get timber out of it. Nobody thinks how we can improve it. We have had the Mau issue. Kenyans have not seen the Mau Forest as an area which needs to be conserved for us to get water. They see it as a place to get timber, plant maize and get charcoal. If this title changes, it will be very clear that the main role of this institution will be to increase forest coverage. As we move on, I appreciate the Chairlady, Members of the Committee and the Senate. If all Committees can go that direction, we will move forward. I trust that when we go to the Committee of the whole House where Members raised certain issues and went away, they are not allowed to bring amendments because we will create a circus where we will be moving round from one point to another. If Members had amendments which were not carried, we should not bring them again at the Committee Stage. I do not know whether we will be violating our Standing Orders by re-opening old wounds."
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