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    "id": 947153,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
        "slug": "david-ole-sankok"
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    "content": "living inside the forest, why degazette it in the first place? Let them live in the forest while it is still a forest. It is another way for the Government to try and grab forest land because it has become the highest grabber of forest land. If not for the Government, we would not be fighting in Mau. It is because of the Government that we have problems of deforestation in this country. Because of the same Government, our forest cover is now at 1.7 per cent against the required 10 per cent forest cover for us to be, at least, comfortable at the minimum. It is because of the Government encroaching into Mau Forest that people have followed the Government into Mau Forest. If there were no roads in Mau Forest, no citizen of this country would buy land in Mau Forest because they will know it is forest land. The Government must first of all explain how Government schools sponsored by the National Government Constituencies-Development Fund (NGCDF) are found inside Mau Forest. The Government must first of all explain how Teachers Service Commission (TSC) teachers - duly paid by Government - are teaching in Mau Forest. I doubt monkeys need some lessons or classes. Before bringing any petition to grab more forest land, the Government must first of all explain how chiefs are inside Mau Forest and how electricity was connected in our forest. We are facing drought and our people are dying. We are beggars literally on 80 per cent of our land mass, in the arid and semi-arid areas. As pastoralists, we are tired of borrowing and begging from the Government and other quarters. The urgent job now for the Red Cross is to feed some of our masses due to failed rains and deforestation. We are tired of individuals - including people like Akothee - donating food stuff to people who can be self-reliant if our forest cover was at a minimum of 10 per cent. We are at 1.7 per cent and they want to grab the forest to take us to zero per cent. We cannot allow this to happen. This House must stand on its feet and reject this Report. We should not allow the Government to grab an inch of any forest. We urge the Government to come up with ways of increasing our forest cover by planting trees in all our public institutions, including schools, chief camps, health centres, road reserves and riparian areas. Let the Government plant more trees to increase our forest cover but not grab even an inch of our forest whether we have conflict or not."
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