{"id":947497,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/947497/?format=json","text_counter":278,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Wetangula","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":210,"legal_name":"Moses Masika Wetangula","slug":"moses-wetangula"},"content":"Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to inform the lady Senator, who is a good debater that I respect so much, that there are two categories of forests. We have Government forests that are gazzetted as Government forests and have no settlements in them. Those are the ones I am talking about. There are also private plantations; individually owned pockets of trees on private land, which we all own and use at will. However, if you go to a country like Belgium, on your land even with the title deed, you cannot cut a tree without a licence and commitment to plant three or four more. That is where we should go."}