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    "id": 820273,
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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": "the country in total shame. I do not see why they should be in office. In that case, we are proposing community management system where people from Eldama Ravine will manage Lembus Forest. You find people from outside the county benefiting from this forest yet the locals have been taking care of it. I remember in 1973, we used to have shamba system in the forest where I was born. There was no need of burning houses. What one needed to do was to plant trees. As they grew, people started moving out of that land because they would not be able to plant their crops inside the forest. I propose that we also have the shamba system in place so that it can encourage people to plant trees. We need to use the same manpower. There are 4,000 people who were chased out of the Mau Forest. The Government should have utilised that manpower to plant trees. Maybe, after three years, the trees will have grown and people will walk out in a peaceful way. Burning lizards in our culture is a taboo. Burning houses is a taboo. There are so many things in those houses. It is a violation of the law. People have lived there for 12 years without being charged rent. The Constitution was violated by those who conducted the operation. They should have respected that there is a provision. If you have been in that land for more than 12 years, you are supposed to have the whole of it or even a half it. We need to wake up as a country. I challenge the Jubilee Government, particularly the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, to look back and check the route he has taken. It is a wrong route. As I conclude, the Jubilee Government, under the leadership of His Excellency the President, has four pillars. On Saturday, as Wiper Party, we decided to join the Government in order to improve the four pillars. We have come with one pillar called “peace” so that the four pillars can be achieved."
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