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    "id": 920988,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "per cent. Kenya is striving to build our forest cover. To lift the ban on logging is to declare war on the limited forest cover that we have in this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the current budget, the European Union (EU) has given some money to 11 counties, including my county that host water towers. Each of the 11 counties had been awarded Kshs80 million per year for the next three years. When foreigners are helping us to increase our forest cover, how can we come to this House of reason and call for the lifting of the ban on logging? If you go to the Maasai Mara today, even a three year old child can cross the Mara River because it has no water. Permanent rivers have turned into seasonal rivers. I pass through Elgeyo-Marakwet and Uasin Gishu counties and all the forest between Eldama Ravine and Eldoret has been mowed down and there is no corresponding replanting. It is like we are at war with each other everywhere you go. Madam Temporary Speaker, I ask the distinguished young Senator from Nakuru County whom I have a lot of respect for that for the sake of the youths that she is talking about, there are jobs that can be found in a different way, rather than turning where they live into Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL) areas and, eventually, deserts because of destruction of trees. I oppose this Statement. I will follow it to the Committee you send it to and oppose it. I will stand in public and oppose it. This is a statement that does not help this country in any way whatsoever and howsoever."
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