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    "id": 738225,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Being an environmentalist I have great difficulty in agreeing with the excision of forests as a principle. This is because one prominent person in this country was charged because of selling excised forest in Ngong’. Whereas we are supposed to be at 37 per cent of forest cover, we are at 3 per cent. That Petition is, therefore, very strange to me. Secondly, on the Petition from Makueni County, we have had a problem and maybe the next Senate will find a method where we will audit county employees. I remember we found petitions in Bomet County about the governor employing his relatives and he found no wrong reason employing his relatives. A principle must come out clearly on how we should deal with employing relatives. On Gov. Kidero’s Petition, I am aware that the county government of Nairobi is demanding for rates for government buildings including where we are. There are tremendous challenges about the Rating Act. I would like to know the principles under which Kenyans should continue paying taxes or rates in relation to the services they receive. The law says that county governments will get rates from any person including the national Government."
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