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    "id": 967998,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Petition. I want to thank the Petitioners for coming up with this Petition because yes, we need to safeguard and protect forests. However, the citizens also need security, as stipulated in Article 43 of our Constitution; so this needs to be a balancing act. The Government needs to ensure that in as much as the forests are being protected, they should not stress the citizens unduly in the process of doing so. These people have lived in the forests for so many years, from one generation to another. I am sure that some of the children in these families have not known any other home. There is need for the Government to come up with an alternative place to settle the people, so that they carry out this exercise in a commendable manner. We do not want a situation where people are taken to the streets, or out of the society because of this exercise, so that we end up having street families and frustrated people. The Government has a responsibility of ensuring that it provides security for the evicted families and for people who are vulnerable and are not able to protect their own families. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support this Petition and I hope that it will be taken with a lot of seriousness, so that we are able to serve our people whom we are employed to lead. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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