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    "id": 819350,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/819350/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mutunga",
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        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": "country whose 68 per cent population is dependent on wood fuel. If 68 per cent of the population is dependent on wood fuel, how can we increase our forest cover? It is, in fact, diminishing! There are several options that have come up and they have not been seriously followed. One of them is through the Ministry of Agriculture where we need to insist about a wood lot of 10 per cent of the farm size. I am wondering how far this has gone. Is it a policy pronouncement which has been followed? How many people have set aside 10 per cent of their land and planted trees? Maybe, nobody. It could be 10 per cent or two per cent of the population. Who is really following that policy? Nobody. The other one is that we have efforts in this country to increase the use of biogas. It is methane which must be burnt. When you do not burn methane, it is released into the atmosphere and we know that it is one of the greenhouse gases. Methane comes from the dung that we get from the animals. We need to consolidate this gas so that we may be able to burn it and do two things at the same time. One, use the waste which would have been waste anyway and reduce the use of wood as fuel. The reason people are not adopting biogas usage is because it is very expensive. The biogas plants are very expensive. Establishment of the biogas plant is expensive. We need to make it cheap for the citizens to afford. I support. Thank you."
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