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    "id": 818585,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ijara, PDR",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Sophia Noor",
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        "legal_name": "Sophia Abdi Noor",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to talk about this important matter that is before the House. We went around this country for several days. We were forced to discuss and deliberate issues about logging. You have seen a lot of changes in our environment. We have had a lot of cycles of drought, heavy rains and floods. All these have been caused by the changes that we are experiencing in our forests. The committee went to the Mau Forest, Mt. Kenya Forest and held several meetings with various communities, conservationists and experts so that we could make a final conclusion and decision. As a committee, we see logging in Kenya as a disaster. It is a cancer. It is happing in public and community forests as well as in farm lands. The KFS has inadequate capacity. There is also a problem with governance structures at the KFS. There have been a lot of problems particularly on the issue of licensing within the KFS. When I talk about capacity, I mean various levels of capacity. In terms of the top management, there has been abuse of office. When you come to the board, the chairman runs the KFS as a private property. In Karura Forest, which is 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."
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