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    "id": 1048331,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Rozaah Buyu",
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        "legal_name": "Rozaah Akinyi Buyu",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Motion before us. I am a member of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources and, indeed, the Committee has done a lot of work to come up with this Report. The most important thing that I get out of this Report is the human-wildlife conflict. We know that thousands of Kenyans have suffered because of human-wildlife conflict. In the Committee, we get cries from people who have suffered and have never been compensated. There are people who feel that the Government prefers to look after wildlife as opposed to its citizens. At some point, the Committee was forced to actually speak to the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Tourism and Wildlife and ask him that even if there are meager resources; those funds must be spread across all the people who have suffered or people who have been affected by the human-wildlife conflict. I am also happy that the Report recognises the effects of climate change. I come from the lake region. In that part of Kenya, there is a backflow of the lake and with it, there is a disaster waiting to happen. Along the area that I come from, we have the menace from crocodiles. We have children being swallowed by crocodiles. We have people who, even if they do not die, have to be amputated and lose their limbs. These are people who wait to be compensated but the compensation never sees the light of the day. So, apart from the Report recognising that, I would like to also suggest that we must look at the speed or the time within which the compensation is made. The compensation will not bring back human life but it makes you feel like somebody cares. Many a times, that is what the citizens need. I know many people have spoken on this Report. I will not take too much time to repeat what they have said. I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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