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    "id": 951456,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/951456/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, land is a tool of production; it is not an instrument of pride and ownership. We, therefore, want the Committee of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries chaired by the distinguished Senator for Nyandarua, to look into this matter very carefully. Like Sen. Orengo said, we have people who have lived with and protected forests – the Ndorobo, Ogiek and all those other communities. We then have the invaders; people who walk into forests armed with power saws on their shoulders. They will mow down any tree in sight, burn charcoal and create deserts where we have tropical forests. Those are the people that we must deal with. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in resettling people we must also encourage the Government to create urban centers with amenities and facilities where people can live in small holdings. They should have schools, hospitals, police station, et cetera; so that they cannot be tempted to run back to the forest. The Majority Leader and his Government should feel ashamed of themselves. This is because the European Union (EU) Governments are sending money to Kenya to protect and conserve forests and to plant trees; when the Jubilee Government is so fixated with brick and motor and grandiose projects which are fueled by greed and corruption. We do not have any money in the budget that we just passed from the Government of Kenya to replant trees in any of the counties yet the Europeans have given Kshs80 million to each of the 11 identified counties to plant trees. Therefore, our priorities are all wrong! Lastly, even the money that the Europeans have given as we were evicting people from the Mau, there is no allocation of part of that money to the Mau Reforestation. Instead, they have sent it to other places, where they are mis-describing it as water towers."
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