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    "id": 820135,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/820135/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Mau Forest. This is an opportunity this country should not let go. The President, the Deputy President and the entire nation including my party leader, who has always been consistent on conserving Mau Forest, are all united. We are all united, namely, the Jubilee Party and NASA. I plead with those politicians who think that by politisicing the issue of the Mau, they are adding some bonga points to their political future, that it is not the right thing to do. If you feel that there is something that is being done that needs to be corrected, please, raise it in a more organised manner. If it is the issue of human rights, that is a matter we can take up as a country. You should not be seen moving to the Mau Forest shouting and throwing insults at civil servants who have a responsibility to protect the forest. Recently, I was on a television show with the Leader of the Majority Party in the Senate and he was asking me when I started defending civil servants. I want to tell him that I have always defended civil servants. Civil servants discharge their responsibilities to all of us, not only people in the Government or people in the Opposition. Every Kenyan requires the services of civil servants. When I see attacks on an individual as if he is the one who has initiated this process, it is unfair. This is a Government project. You cannot realise food security, which is one of the Big Four Agenda of the Government, without protecting water resources and forests and by extension, without protecting the Mau Forest. When you stand to defend your community, you should know that your community has a right to enjoy, but that right should not be enjoyed at the expense of the rights of other communities. The Maasai who die in Narok are not lesser human beings. Their lives are equally important."
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