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    "id": 1071767,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1071767/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support the Member. I feel for her if she actually has to receive complaints from her residents about destruction by wildlife of both life and probably agricultural products. While we appreciate what we get from wildlife, especially in respect of the tourism sector, the Government needs to make more effort to control wildlife and thus reduce human-wildlife conflict. Hon. Speaker, it is not just the elephants and these other big animals. We have conflicts even with birds. In my place in Mwea, my residents are having to spend hours and hours looking after their farms because of Quelea birds that come in numbers. Whereas I know it is possible to put the fence as suggested by Hon. Member, which I fully support, I think the Government also needs to look at a lasting solution to some of the other conflicts like the birds, which I have just mentioned. In Mwea alone we lose Kshs.250 million every season through the Quelea birds. This is something the Government should focus on and sort it out once and for all. If it is a question of benchmarking outside this country to see how they control their birds, they better do so. I am told some of these birds come from Ethiopia and I think I need to be sent there so that we can negotiate with the Government of Ethiopia on how to contain them because we are really suffering. 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"
}