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    "id": 820272,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sammy Seroney",
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        "legal_name": "Sammy Kipkorir Seroney",
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    "content": " He is consulting loudly. I stand to support the Report. I commend the Committee and its Chair for going deep on the Report on environment. I want to go into record that today, as I stand in the 12th Parliament contributing to the issue of environment, I was born in a forest, brought up in a forest and I know what to do with a forest. We must accept that corruption is killing this country. The Report indicated that forest officers have turned their way of operation into business. They also run saw mills like licensed businessmen and women. When you talk about the eviction of Mau residents, you are seen to be taking tribal lines. The problem is not addressed properly. Though the Report is very good, the problem is the people who are supposed to do operation on the improvement of the forest. It is shameful for a country that we are talking of 70 per cent arable land and only 6.5 per cent forest coverage. We are killing ourselves. We are killing generations to come. We are turning this country into a desert in the name of business. I want to be sincere. I remember it was on Tuesday, 17th May 1988 when our houses were burnt down by the Government at Murkisis, Eldama Ravine Constituency, Lembus Forest. Up to now, the people who were evicted have never been compensated. It was a disaster. When I saw the Mau people being evicted, I felt the pain that those people are feeling. These people bought land. My question is: who sold them land? How come they are not in records? Those who are agitating seem to come from Narok. Can they tell us who sold this land? Is it not possible that the same people who sold them the land that was part of private ranches are the same people who have come back, chasing these people away so that they can access the same land? The chances are very high. If this land was private ranches, how is the national Government getting involved without the county government of Narok? Let it go into the records that those people who were evicted from Narok must be compensated by the County Government of Narok. It is shameful that after 54 years of Independence, the same Government that we are proud of is making people homeless. In Timboroa Forest, Chemususu Forest, Maji Mazuri Forest, Kiptunga Forest and the entire forests of Nakuru County, people have been harvesting even young trees simply because they have been licensed. The management of the forest must be disbanded because they have put 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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