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    "id": 947170,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/947170/?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": "Having said that, the issue at hand is the implementation of the recommendations. We may pass a resolution in this House, as we have done in the past. I still remember in the 11th Parliament, the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, which I was a member, passed a resolution to enable the Bangale and Bangale Forest Reserve in Tana River County to be set aside to enable people who had lived there for many years to own the land. Five years down the line, nothing has been implemented. It is as if we debate in vain and yet this is a constitutional mandate we have been given. So, we may even pass a resolution today but, five years down the line, nothing would have been implemented. This could be different because this has come from the Executive. Maybe, it in their interest to implement this particular one! But petitions that were brought by people through us and resolutions passed in the House, I can tell you for sure that to date, we are told by Members of Parliament from counties that they are yet to be implemented. So, at times you wonder why we pass resolutions if they are not acted upon by the Executive. But that is something for the Committee on Implementation to ensure that whatever we pass in the House is not in vain and is implemented."
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