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    "id": 1073980,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1073980/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaruma",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13223,
        "legal_name": "Johnes Mwashushe Mwaruma",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, the initial Section 23 does not speak to offering support to the local communities that are negatively affected by the activities undertaken with respect to wildlife conservation and management. They are left on their own. For instance, the other day, elephants on rampage went where communities were living, uprooted crops and killed animals. Some of the elephants that were thirsty broke reservoir tanks. When we called the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) authorities requesting them to remove the animals, they said that the elephants had babies and if they removed them the babies would be eaten by wild dogs, lions et cetera . Therefore, if you look at that scenario, it means that there is no Clause that speaks to offering support to the communities. This is because if all the cassava has been uprooted and all the food eaten, there has to be a mechanism through regulation, which will ensure that the communities whose food has been destroyed by wild animals can be given food and support. This is so that they can exist until the next planting and harvest season comes. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am also seeking to amend Section 24 (1) (a) of the Principal Act. It talks about the Wildlife Compensation Scheme. It reads- “The Government shall establish a Wildlife Compensation Scheme that shall consist of- (a) monies specifically allocated for this purpose through the budget process.” If you look at this Clause, it is vague. It is wide and difficult to understand or implement such a Clause. I am seeking to amend this Section. The Section should read that- “Monies annually allocated for the purpose by the National Assembly.” This is because it is the National Assembly that appropriates money. It is different from just saying ‘money appropriated for this purpose through budget process.’ The budget process is quite wide and it can be ambiguous. Section 5 seeks to amend Section 25 of the Principal Act. If I look at the initial Wildlife and Conservation Act No.47 of 2013, Section 25 of the 2013 Act, it talks about compensation for personal injury or death or damage to property. Section 25 (1) (a) states that- “Where any person suffers any bodily injury or is killed by any wildlife listed under the Third Schedule, the person injured, or in the case of a deceased person, the personal representative or successor or assignee, may launch a claim to the County Wildlife Conservation and Compensation Committee within the jurisdiction established under this Act.”"
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