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    "id": 921017,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to be looking at how to regulate certain aspects, for instance, my concern in Nairobi is that, I have young people who are making furniture along Ngong Road, Huruma, Kamkunji and Gikomba. The ad valorem import duty of finished furniture is at 25 per cent. We should be talking about raising it to 40 or 50 per cent, so that it is still cheaper to import timber and finish it here as opposed to accepting logging, or buying cheap furniture from China. We need to look at how this can happen. That is why when it goes to this Committee, we need an objective discussion about how we can protect our environment. That is for posterity. We have not inherited our environment from our fathers, but we are keeping it for our children and future generations, such that, while there might be a temporary inconvenience, the ban on logging should not be time bound. It should remain until we have reached above 15 per cent forest cover or whatever threshold that has been set, but for now, let us see what mitigating factors we can have to regulate the given aspect so that there is collection of dead wood, which is okay."
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