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    "id": 946085,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "the part of KFS. They have the appetite for looking for more areas to gazette as forests and yet, they cannot protect the forests that have already been gazetted. In my constituency, there is a forest which is over 4,000 hectares, but it has been destroyed completely by loggers - the people who encroach and cut trees. The KFS demand that we add 2,000 hectares to that forest for more water catchment areas and yet, they cannot even protect the existing forest. I do not know what happened with KFS. When I was growing up, I used to see KFS officers residing inside the forest to protect it. Nowadays, the officers stay miles away from the forests. How can you protect forests when you are not residing in them? They are just moving around. They are not even watching over our forests and yet, we pay them huge salaries. This is something that seriously needs to change. Finally, for us to realise good forest cover of about 10 per cent, the leadership of this country, where we belong, needs to come up with a system where every public facility in this country, whether it is a school or a chief’s office or a church, sets aside a percentage of the land area of that public facility for planting trees. If we take all our schools, whether primary or secondary, we take all public offices, from that of assistant chief to chief to Deputy County Commissioner and all churches, we will move closer to realising the 10 per cent forest cover that we desire as a country. Otherwise, if we just continue talking about forest cover, we will not have more trees. Worse still, we will be destroying the forests that we already have in place. If we cannot protect forests, we are destroying the future of our children, grandchildren and the generations to come. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support the Report."
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