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    "id": 818533,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/818533/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maara, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kareke Mbiuki",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Japhet M. Kareke Mbiuki",
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    "content": "THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources on the Inquiry into Forest Resources Management and Logging Activities in Kenya, laid on the Table of the House on Thursday, 3rd May 2018. Logging in Kenya is an unmitigated disaster in both public and community forests as well as in the farmlands. This is attributed to inadequate capacity of the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) to enforce licensing conditions as well as eradicate abuse of licence conditions by the sawmillers and other licensees. In particular, there has been illegal logging, charcoal burning, illegal grazing, settlement encroachment and mismanagement of plantation forests and the Shamba system. As a result, most parts of the country have been experiencing drying of rivers, lowering of water tables and drying of wells. The foregoing informed the decision of the committee to raise the concern in its sitting on 1st February 2018. The committee noted that there was an urgent need to address the logging menace in the country with special focus on the Mt. Kenya, the Aberdares and Mau forests, being key water towers. The committee then called for a total ban on timber harvesting and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}