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    "id": 818577,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/818577/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "Sixty per cent of Lake Victoria water originates from the Mau Forest. Lake Nakuru and Lake Naivasha will not be there if we do not conserve the Mau Forest and other forests in our country. But we have politicised the issue of the Mau Forest conservation and reduced it to a contest between two communities. I have even heard in the media people claiming that it has claimed careers of some individuals. People claim that it claimed the career of Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga. With due respect, Raila Odinga has been on the ballot paper since 1997 and he has been perennially losing in the election. The issue of the Mau Forest came into being in 2013. So, let us not bring politics into a very important matter concerning our people. We should also ask ourselves the nucleus of the problem of conservation of our forests. How can individuals have genuine title deeds inside a forest? How can storied buildings be built in a forest under the watch of people we pay through our taxes to man the forests? How can we have schools inside a forest? It means that even the Government itself is an encroacher of our forests because we have schools and roads built by the Government in the Mau Forest commissioned by leaders of the country. So, what is the nucleus of the problem bedevilling our forests? Apart from logging, it is the land registration office, especially the district land registration offices that are involved. Narok has land registration offices which have issued title deeds to settlers and encroachers of the Mau Forest."
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