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    "id": 947168,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/947168/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Horr, FAP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Chachu Ganya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 18,
        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
        "slug": "francis-ganya"
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    "content": "on Environment and Natural Resources- jointly assessed this Petition. We all concurred that there is need to agree with the Government on their request for this Petition. If you look at our Report, we were all in agreement. There is no single dissenting view. Two Departmental Committees of this House were given a task and they did it well. I am sure they will guide this House to do what is right. An environmental impact assessment was done. Varying the boundaries of Mt. Elgon Forest Reserve will not add any degrading impact on the ecosystem and ecology of that environment. We also feel that if this process is done well and people are settled and we conserve the rest of the forest, then we will have a very good land use system in place. We will conserve the water towers and the entire ecosystem of the Mt. Elgon Forest. People will leave the forest and live where they will be given land. We also have to appreciate that this Petition is from the Executive arm of our Government. They are saying that it is time we varied the boundaries and give squatters, the people who have lived in the land for the last 50 years or so, a space and a home so that they can use that land effectively knowing that it is theirs. Once they have title deeds, they will develop the land and make use of it and boost the local economy and the entire economy of Bungoma County."
}