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    "id": 926014,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/926014/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jude Njomo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jude L. Kangethe Njomo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support what you have said. I appreciate the wisdom in your words. Kamiti Anmer is an area in my constituency. It is no longer a forest as people have occupied it. It is over 400 acres and people have built permanent houses in that area. The squatters have settled there. The Forestry Department has been adamant about de-gazetting the forest. I, therefore, support what you are saying; that, we should follow every procedure of the law. If we skip one step, the Forestry Department will go ahead and frustrate the effort towards de-gazetting this forest. That is why we would rather take a longer period and ensure that we have followed every step, including what the law stipulates. An impact assessment report be prepared about this matter. The Committee must tell us, like the law requires, that there is no water catchment in that area, and that there are no endangered species. The only ‘endangered species’ in that forest are the thieves, who were stealing and dismembering vehicles in the forest. They were using the forest as their hideout. The thieves are the only ‘endangered species’ in that forest. There is no other endangered species in that area. That area has been inhabited by the people of Kiambu. There is need for that forest to be de- gazetted so that they get title deeds and settle down in their properties without any fear that the following day forest guards would chase them away. The land has been rightfully given to them. All that remains is for the award to be regularised by formally de-gazetting the parcel of land and changing its user from forest land to settlement land."
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