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    "id": 93813,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/93813/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Wekesa",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Noah Mahalang'ang'a Wekesa",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to thank the Departmental Committee because we have worked very well with them. We have worked very well with the Chair of the Committee and his recommendations are exactly what we discussed. I also want to tell hon. Members that we work very well with the Ministry of Lands. We have worked very well in as far as the issue of Mau Forest is concerned. The Ministry of Lands joined us and has done all the mapping and boundaries have been established. Profiling has also been done. What remains is for our legal experts to recommend ways and means of paying the people that we removed from the Mau Forest. That should be done in the next two months. As far as programmes II and III are concerned, those people should be paid in the next two months or so. I would like to say that the Ministry is under-funded. The Kenya Forestry Service (KFS) is a new institution that was established in 2005. It is supposed to have enough funds so that it can stand on its own. We should be able to employ more people or take the officers from the Department of Forestry into the KFS which is a parastatal. That has not been done. So far, we have brought about 400 officers and we would like to have everybody who used to be in the Department of Forest moved into the new parastatal. To do this, we need money. Every year we request for more money so that we can police our forests and plant more trees as we move towards 2030 when we hope to get a 10 per cent forest cover."
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