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    "id": 819343,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/819343/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bomachoge Borabu, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Zadoc Ogutu",
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        "legal_name": "Zadoc Abel Ogutu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Report. Upfront, this is a step in the right direction presented in a fairly fragmented way. Looking at it, I see a number of grey areas that emerge, but sometimes overlapping, because of the way the Report has been prepared and presented. I wish to see the key observations on forest management coming out clearly in a more synthesised form. The second part will look at the logging activities, observations and recommendations. That will be better in guiding us. Let me ask something that I would have also wanted to see. We have the Ministry of Environment that is funded annually but forests are being lost and logging activities are taking place. The question I am asking is: What is the value of this Ministry? The value of the Ministry must go beyond protecting the forests. To expand the forest cover in this country, the Ministry should give services. If I can specify them, the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) should give services beyond the protected forests on to the farmland. For most part of Kenya, currently, we do not have any areas that are forested. Our forests would be the farms where other crops are grown but what is the extension service given to this particular category of forests? I know in highly populated areas like Kisii, Meru and parts of Murang’a, we have challenges of the right species to plant in the farmlands. That is what the Ministry should be doing - providing farmers with the right advice and working to ensure that the laws that exist to integrate trees in the farm are clearly followed. Eucalyptus, for instance, is an ingredient in farm 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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