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    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This Report underlines a very major principle of the problems we see in this country – that people in positions of authority use their authority and power and completely ignore technical issues. We have seen this in this Report. We saw exactly the same in the report on the dams and the report of PIC on the management of parastatals. The problem is governance. The people who are governing think that power can overcome technical issues. That is why those rhinos died. This physical world is controlled by its own laws, nature or by God’s laws; if you are religious or a Christian. The human organisation of structures that we put in place and politics cannot have power over those structures. So, what do you see here? There are huge problems of governance. One, there is no board. They have delayed for a long time to have a board in place. So, how do you run an organisation without a board? The next thing you see is that they remove the veterinary officer who was in charge. This is the Director of Veterinary Services who was probably giving technical advice in that committee. That is a management problem. You find that again they employ two officers bringing a reporting problem. So, you bring disharmony in the structure. Then the technical officer you have is on suspension. You have a report which says there is high salinity in this place and you cannot take those animals there. You ignore that. What power do you have over the animals once the technical The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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