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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rozaah Buyu",
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    "content": "(Kisumu (CWR), ODM): Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity. Like I said the last time we talked about this Report, I am a Member of this Committee and I support the Report. I would like to clearly state that, at the point when the Committee was going through this discussion, it was a very passionate and emotional session. This is because the Committee equated this to innocent and helpless men being sent to the gallows while people are watching. Indeed, the black rhinos were innocent and helpless. The only reasons they met their death during the relocation was out of negligence and due to inadequate human resource. The last time we were here, Members cried out that they wished the Report actually named the people held culpable for some of those actions. The Committee was very bold in calling out the CS for Tourism and Wildlife in terms of taking responsibility. This is because the Committee felt that being at the helm of that Ministry, it was improper for him to say that he was just called and thought everything was okay. He just went to flag-off the exercise. CSs are paid to do much more. Their mandate is much more than just being page-boys. The Committee also found that the then PS in the Ministry as also holding responsibility for the death of the 11 rhinos. Why? It is true that there was no board because it had been disbanded. But it is also true that the PS sat in the board that had been disbanded. It had on three times declined going through with the relocation exercise sighting improper salinity of the water and unfavourable weather as being part of the reasons. The PS having sat in that board and sitting in the new board, should have advised them against this. What is it that had changed in terms of the conditions that had stopped the previous board from going on with the relocation exercise? What improvements had been made and why did they choose to go on with the exercise at that particular time. I think the Committee was very bold and, for that, I continue to support it and the Report. It is true that, at the time when the relocation was being done, essential areas were ignored. They did not have the officer in-charge of ecological areas and the officer in charge of veterinary services. How then could this be carried out without those essential services? I support the findings of the Committee and say that, indeed, the CS and the then PS should be held responsible for the death of the 11 black rhinos. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the Report. Thank you."
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