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    "id": 93778,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musila",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Defence",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Musila",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the money that the Minister has requested, as you have noted, is not adequate. I, therefore, urge the House that we approve the little that has been provided. As you are aware, there has been serious destruction of forests in this country reducing the forest cover to a mere less than 2 per cent from what it should be. A normal one should be 10 per cent. Never again shall this country allow this kind of destruction to go on. The kind of climate change that we have seen in this country, particularly dry weather, has been a direct consequence of the destruction of our forests. Therefore, it is very important that the Ministry is given support, so that we can continue to increase our forest cover. In this connection, I am encouraged by the fact that the Constitution that we passed only last week has a provision that this country has to achieve a 10 per cent forest cover in due course. I would like to call on the Forest Service to put more effort in ensuring that our forests are not destroyed. Every now and then, we get reports and hear that people are still going into forests and destroying them at the watch of our officers. I urge them to put every effort to ensure that no more destruction of forests takes places."
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