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    "id": 819356,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kaiti, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Kivinda",
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        "legal_name": "Joshua Kivinda Kimilu",
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    "content": "them on the importance of forests. If we can take the responsibility as Members, go out to our communities and tell them the importance of forests… I was watching news last night and I saw people talking about cutting down trees. This is a serious issue but sometimes we take it lightly and try to use our forests for politics, which is not good. The ministry has enough money to do a lot, because what they are doing is not enough. The forest I am talking about is 50,000 hectares and it is manned by less than 20 personnel. That is why now and then you meet people logging trees in that forest. There is no control of how people log trees. It is all over and they are doing it at night. If we can add personnel in that forest, we can do something to conserve the environment. There are a lot of points where as Members we can join together and conserve our environment. Once we cut down trees, we encourage soil erosion which endangers the environment. Achieving the Big Four Agenda of food security in this country is a challenge. We also encourage Members of this House, if we can spend the NG-CDF money and plant trees and we go round the constituencies campaigning for the planting of trees and conserving of the environment, it can be good. This can also help our people to conserve the environment. I will not say much about how we can secure our forests. We all know that we need the forests for our daily activities. The air we breathe, the wood and charcoal we use come from trees. So these are serious issues which we need to contribute to. It is long overdue, because once you talk of forests and trees, you are talking of life. We cannot afford this. So I take this opportunity to support this Motion. There is a lot of logging happening in our forests. We need to beef up security. We are taking it for granted. We talk of protecting our forests but when you go round you find a lot of logging still happening. I also encourage the Government to add more funds to our youth and women to be sensitised about the importance of trees. If we use our youth, some of whom have no jobs, this is a way of creating jobs. It will encourage and educate the youth and the coming generation. Our country will be green and we will conserve our environment. I support the Motion. Thank you."
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