Roselinda Soipan Tuya

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• 2 Aug 2023 in Senate: With regard to your question, I started off by agreeing that we have a challenge with the illegal activities and wanton destruction of our ecosystems. However, please take note that there is no correlation whatsoever between the lift of the ban on logging and the illegal activities that are ongoing within our forests. This is because the lift on the ban on logging applies only to gazetted commercial plantations. We have a total of 2 million hectares of gazetted forests in this country. The commercial plantations are only 150,000 hectares. So, it is a very small percentage of about six ... view
• 2 Aug 2023 in Senate: In that regard, the lift on the ban does not apply to indigenous forests gazetted in this country. It is only about five or six per cent of the commercial plantations. view
• 2 Aug 2023 in Senate: On the import of commercial plantations, we have a demand for timber products in this country. We have a timber market in the country that is doing extremely poorly. We are doing importation left, right and centre even for toothpicks. That has an implication to the economy of our country, the job creation we need to do for our young people and on how we want to build our country. The commercial forestry sector is one such sector that we must recast which is a big contributor to our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). view
• 2 Aug 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is a good question for Kenyans to know that the lift on the ban has nothing to do with the wanton destruction that is going on because the President has not said that we are lifting a ban on logging in our indigenous forests. It is only within the five per cent of commercial plantations. We have a felling plan which is sustainable. view
• 2 Aug 2023 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate. view
• 2 Aug 2023 in Senate: Even within those commercial plantations, we cannot do more than 5,000 hectares in a year. If you divide that by 150,000 hectares, it takes us to so many years. So, it gives room in that this year we are doing 5,000 hectares. By the time we are moving to the next 5,000 hectares in the next year, we have a replanting plan for the one that is harvested this year. view
• 2 Aug 2023 in Senate: The maturity rate for our commercial trees ranges between 15, 35 up to 40 years. That is the age of the commercial plantations that we are embarking on harvesting upon the lift of the ban by His Excellency, the President. It is also important for Kenyans to understand that the logging ban was imposed in 2018 and it has occasioned colossal loses to our saw millers in this country. It has also occasioned a huge degradation of our commercial forestry component of our economy. Therefore, it is time that we revisit that. view
• 2 Aug 2023 in Senate: What we need to do and to be speaking about is how to increase efficiency in our commercial plantations and to entice our private sector so that we go beyond the 150,000 hectares of commercial plantations by Government and even have individual Kenyans engage in commercial tree planting and growing in their private forests. That way, we will have some return or derived profit by our individual farmers and Kenyans from forestry products in their private farms, which eventually will feed into supporting our commercial forestry strategy in the country. view
• 2 Aug 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, even in this House, all the timber products within the confines of this Chamber could amount to maybe 80 per cent. However, you would be sad to know that these are imports from other jurisdictions which could easily be made from our prisons department by our young people if we work on our commercial forestry sector in the country. view
• 2 Aug 2023 in Senate: Hon. Senator from West Pokot, the plan goes beyond schools. You have talked about Cherang’any. Beyond depending on the Exchequer, one of the plans is we have a project coming specifically for the Cherang’any water tower supported by partners from Italy. I invite you to join in to know what it entails. view