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    "id": 818599,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/818599/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Isiolo North, KPP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hassan Hulufo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Oda Hulufo",
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    "content": "Having said that, the KFS, which has the primary responsibility of protecting our forests, has its own challenges which are very well elaborated in the Report. For example, we have to appreciate that in as much as we expect a lot from it in terms of protecting forests, monitoring, licensing, controlling logging and ensuring that those who are licensed are felling trees in line with the conditions of the licences, the personnel, the number of people who are hired to take care of our forests are grossly inadequate. If we look at the current situation, the KFS has one ranger for every 1000 hectares of land against the international standards of one ranger for every 400 hectares. Therefore, manning the various conservation areas with these few rangers, who are poorly equipped in terms of vehicles and advanced equipments like aerial surveillance, becomes a very difficult task. The KFS budgetary requirement as per the Cabinet Secretary in charge, is around Kshs15 billion if they are to be effective in protecting our gazetted and non- gazetted forests. But they are allocated less than half of that. Therefore, it is very difficult for the service to carry out its mandate effectively."
}