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    "id": 763156,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/763156/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Secondly, we have had problems because of not having a policy. We have had a lot of conflicts where people have been evicted from their land because the land is supposed to be a forest reserve or for Government use. People have been evicted, particularly in Trans Nzoia. We have had problems where people have been thrown out and ended up as IDPs because there has been no policy at all. The other thing is that we have climatic change challenges because we have not used our land properly. Look at the forest cover. This country is on the tropical land scape. You will find that the forest cover in this country has been reducing every day because people are encroaching into forests for other activities either for agriculture or just for shelter. Forests have been reducing and we have had problems as a result. We have climatic change and today we do not even know when we will have rains in this country. I come from an agricultural area and I am surprised we should have had rains before August. We still do not have any signs of rain in those areas because things have changed so much. There is pollution in this country. We had the Tokyo Carbon Credit where if you planted trees on a ten-acre piece of land, you would be given credits which were equivalent to a lot of money. We do not have that anymore because of population expansion. The population in this country is uncontrollable. I do not know why, but maybe it is because of poverty. As a result of problems with land use, we have interfered with our forest cover and therefore, our rainfall patterns are no longer predictable. 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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