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    "id": 1047387,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1047387/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Halima Yussuf Mucheke",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to inject my voice on this very important Sessional Paper No. 1 of 2020 on Kenya Wildlife Service Policy. First of all, I would like to thank the Chairperson for bringing such a very important policy. We have to think about communities that have coexisted with wildlife for a long time and what their benefit and role is when coming up with such Sessional Papers. They understand these animals. They have lived with this wildlife. They understand them better. From what I have heard, there was no adequate consultation. I would like the Chairperson to do further public participation and include all the stakeholders in the wildlife sector. Many people have been maimed by wildlife hence joining my club of persons living with disabilities. Some of them are now competing for the few resources and opportunities that were only there for us. Communities like the Maasai have paid the ultimate price for the world to enjoy wildlife. Some of this wildlife would have been extinct if it were not because of our protection and the price we have paid. The price we have paid includes land. Our land acreage was reduced so that Maasai Mara National Park, Amboseli National Park and Tsavo East and West National Parks can have the massive land they sit on. Individually, we would have more acreage in terms of land but now we had to pay the price in terms of land. We have paid the price in terms of our lives and blood. There are so many families that have orphans, widows and widowers because of human-wildlife conflict. We have also paid economically because 70 per cent of the wildlife is not in their protected areas. They are within our farms. They have destroyed our crops and livestock. If you go to any boma of the Maasai, you will find that they have a calf being given uji because the cow was eaten by lions. You will find cows that have been milked without calves because they were eaten by hyenas. We have paid economically for the world to enjoy wildlife. Sometimes, it is funny when the Government recruits Kenya Wildlife Service Rangers. They do not take into account the communities that have been suffering and harbouring this 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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