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    "id": 1019671,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "people have told you that those animals cannot live in that area because of the salt in that place? You cannot use power to change those. So, again, it is the problem of governance. Then there is no policy on how they relate with international partners. So, what do we find? The World Wildlife Fund which had given the money is actually putting pressure on them. It looks to me like they succumbed to that and relocated those animals because of that pressure. The technical officer was suspended for whatever reason. The veterinary officer in the board was removed and they changed the structure. Who are the veterinary people who are looking after this? They are people in uniform and the report says they are too scared to talk to the managers. If you do not respect the technical people because they are junior, you are not disobeying them but disobeying the laws of nature. Even if it is people, they will die. We have governance issues in all those places. We saw it in the two reports I have mentioned and that is why those animals died. The governance structure was wrong. The people were authoritative. They did not take into consideration technical issues. They were running the system by fear. I, therefore, support this Report, particularly the recommendations that serious action should be taken at those levels. Even when they employed the technical person, they employed a person with wrong qualifications. What did they expect? I support this Report. We are seeing this everywhere in the way we run our institutions. Thank you."
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