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    "id": 847637,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/847637/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "This is a good Report. I know that right now there are many emotive activities on afforestation matters, particularly the issue of Mau Forest and many others. It is a reality that the issue of land resources, particularly natural resources, must be guarded jealously by the current generation. We experience drastic population growth. Whenever we conduct a population census, our conservative population growth rate has been between 3.5 and 5 per cent. Taking this into account, and the level of depletion of our natural resources, in particular forest resources, there is likelihood that in another 50 years, Kenya will either be bordering on desertification or will be a desert. Right now, there are many countries that attempt to say that there is no climate change. I am a firm believer, having experienced it. There is an element of climate change in every part of the world. Since the world has now become a global village, what we do on our environment will have serious effects in other parts of the world. The Committee, having brought this Report, I challenge the chairman and his team to translate the same into a legislative framework. If we really have to protect our forests, it is not enough to just come to this House, debate this Report, adopt and leave it. This is a beautiful Report. Can you translate the same into a Bill that will regulate how we use our forest resources?"
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