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    "id": 818583,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/818583/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13166,
        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
        "slug": "david-ole-sankok"
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    "content": " Therefore, the problem originates from the land registration officers. Our Head of State ordered for a lifestyle audit on all procurement officers in his Government. He should also now order for total lifestyle audit of all registry officers and district land surveyors because they are the ones who dish out our forest land like hot cakes. You will be shocked to find an individual from northern Kenya or southern Kenya having a piece of land in the middle of Rift Valley without documentation showing how they acquired that land. They allocate themselves and their relatives land in the forests. We need to deal with land registration officers if we have to protect our environment. The second problem is forest officers. I do not know how a school can come up in the forest and have children go through Class One to Class Eight and yet the forest officers, who are paid to take care of that forest, do not raise any alarm or close the school even with the powers given to them by the law. We are now evicting people using other forces instead of the forces we pay to man that land. If you are employed as a herder of 100 cows and then in the first day you come home minus 10 head of cattle, and the second day you come back minus another 10 cows, you will definitely be sacked. The Mau Forest has been shrinking under the hands of these rogue forest officers. They should be sacked. In fact, we should not call for a lifestyle audit on forest officers. We need them first of all to be sacked, then, we can protect the forests. Even if we evicted all the people in the Mau Forest, I am sure title deeds would still be issued to other individuals and we would still have that perennial problem repeating itself. The Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources has done a marvellous job. As I said, it is only 2.5 million acres that are gazetted Government forest yet this country has 140 million acres. Two-and-a-half million acres out of 140 million acres is a negligible amount. Please, involve the private sector. Let us commercialise tree planting so that we can have trees like bamboo which are commercially viable and our citizens can join in the conservation of forests. Thank you. I support."
}