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    "id": 797342,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, thank you very much for your consideration. This Petition is, obviously, very weighty. It is weighty in the sense that as we speak, we know there is a ban on logging and harvesting of trees or forests across the country, namely, forests on public and community lands. I am worried because if we start entertaining petitions that seek to have the ban on logging lifted in piecemeal, then we will land in a problem. So, my take would be that perhaps this Petition could have been brought here in the context of the ban generally on logging of forests and forest products. I am aware that a taskforce was set up by the Government to look into this matter and the taskforce has since tabled a report. I am not sure what kind of a report it has tabled. It has since submitted a report to the Government. It will be important for this House to interrogate that report for it to be able to act out of proper information. Without really attempting to forestall the Petition by my colleague, I wish to suggest that that Petition be stood down until and unless we have looked at that report of the taskforce."
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