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    "id": 1048338,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maara, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kareke Mbiuki",
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        "legal_name": "Japhet M. Kareke Mbiuki",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the very outset, allow me to thank the House for the debate and overwhelming support to Sessional Paper No. 1 of 2020 on Wildlife Policy. I wish to appreciate and acknowledge all the concerns raised by the Hon. Members, specifically on the issues of human-wildlife conflict. This House has been seized of so many Questions, Statements and Petitions on human- wildlife conflict, which the Committee has been able to process. At the same time, the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife came up with a taskforce to try to address the issue of human-wildlife conflict. In that taskforce, the Committee recommended, due to serious budgetary constraints, that the Ministry needs to come up with a policy whereby the families of the victims of issues like deaths occasioned by wildlife are compensated to the tune of Kshs5 million in case of any death. But due to budgetary constraints, we proposed that the money be paid on a prorata basis - 30 per cent for the first year, 30 per cent for the second year and finally 40 per cent for the final year. That is so that, at the end of the day, as many cases as possible can be addressed. We currently have pending bills of more than Kshs6 billion on certified claims due to human-wildlife conflict. Unfortunately, what we have in the budget, like this Financial Year, is barely Kshs500 million. As a Committee, we have tried to engage this House through the Budget and Appropriations Committee, but we have not been able to make progress. Arising from those serious constraints, I want to beg this House, specifically the Budget and Appropriations Committee, to consider enhancing allocation to the issue of human-wildlife conflict."
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