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    "id": 851341,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/851341/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13435,
        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
        "slug": "francis-kuria-kimani"
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    "content": "On the issue of data collection in census and statistics, I am happy that we are proposing to make it criminal for anybody to provide false information when census will be done next year. Sharing of revenue is based on the population from the census. So, we are looking forward to collecting accurate data. I hope this time round, the collection of data during the census will be biometric so that we know who resides where and the kind of resources that should be allocated to those areas. I have looked at Clause 20 that makes it now law that data and statistics should be collected and analysed on forestry and logging. As we speak, there is a ban on logging in the country. All the major towns or economies that were dependent on logging business are down on their knees. Elburgon in my constituency has now 5,000 youths at home because Timsales, one of the biggest companies that supply timber all over Kenya, has closed down. Almost 50 sawmills have closed down. That does not mean that logging is not happening. We have stopped logging in our forests but we are now harvesting even the smallest of trees in our households. If the intentions is to protect our forest cover, does it mean that it is only trees in the forest or does it include the ones in our homes? I hope that we will collect accurate data on our forests and lift the ban so that honest businessmen who have had gainful employment from the logging can continue to do so."
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