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    "id": 1045466,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Katoo ole Metito",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Janet Marania Teyiaa",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to speak to this very important policy. I speak in support of it. I really have a lot to say on wildlife issues. I can actually talk for two days on wildlife issues without referring to any document, because I was born and raised in areas where wildlife lived or in communities that live with wildlife. That is the case with you, Hon. Deputy Speaker because you and I border a park; the Kyulu National Park. I boarder Tsavo West National Park and the whole of Amboseli National Park is in my constituency. So, I really do not think five or ten minutes are enough for me to talk about the issues of wildlife. Let me just say this. In formulating this policy, if you look at the document itself, what we call the rationale for a new wildlife policy, when you go to number 1.23, amongst so many I want to pick on two, b and c. Subsection b talks of the rationale of conservation and management of wildlife in national parks, national reserves and national sanctuaries. Sub-section C, which are very important talks about conservation and management of wildlife on private and community land. That is very key. They must have consulted when they were making this policy, I have not seen much because they said, in 1.3, the process of formulating the policy are only two; one, extensive literature review. That is getting the best practices in the books and part c is the analysis and documentation of best practices. I have not seen much consultation on people who live with wildlife especially on conservation and management of wildlife on private and community lands. These are the people who should be consulted most, because if you read through the policy they acknowledge that 70 per cent or more of the wildlife live outside the protected areas. It means, therefore, that they live on people’s private and community land. What are the issues that need to be addressed? One is proper implementation of the law. I thank the committee led by my good friend, Hon. Kareke Mbiuki because they have noted that they have not been implementing of the current law. That goes to compensation in the current law, we passed in this House that there should be compensation of loss of wildlife, loss of crops, damage of both of them, livestock and crops and also loss of human lives. But is has not been done. I know the pending bills on these issues of compensation all over the country at the KWS headquarters or in the relevant Ministry is over Kshs 6 billion. If we keep making good policies and we fail to implement them and that is a problem. Two, they have noted that some of the reason is in 2.23. They talk of inadequate incentives. Meaning the people who live with wildlife does not get adequate incentives for them to continue living with wild animals. There should be exemption of some taxation to businesses that are conservation related like the lodges, hotels in those areas that people are living with wild life."
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