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"content": "455 from human injuries, 5,073 from crop damages, 3,012 from livestock predations and 33 from property destruction. None of those have been compensated. I am talking about cases that have been reported to the Ministerial Wildlife Conversation and Compensation Committee and nothing has been done. Madam Temporary Speaker, Sen. Wetangula and Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., I am saying that because they are lawyers, will tell you tort law and common law on negligence; trespass and strict liability requires that a person who keeps an animal that causes injury to the neighbours must be held liable. The people who own these animals in Laikipia are ranchers in Laikipia. They release these animals to our farms, especially when there is drought and fire. We get trouble with these animals but we do not get compensation. What I want to encourage my colleague, Sen. Mwaruma is that this Bill is timely. What we all need to do is to tighten the issue of compensation. The late Hon. G.G. Kariuki had talked about it in this Senate and in the National Assembly until his days came to an end; may the Lord rest his soul in eternal peace. However, the people he was talking on their behalf have not been compensated. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is the issue that we must not only talk about but we must take action so that people can be compensated. In Laikipia, we are suffering from all angles. If it is not animals, at night we are being attacked by bandits. If it is not bandits, I do not know whether locusts are supposed to be classified under this Bill. Locusts are--- On the last page of the Bill in the schedule, I saw that on the issue of wildlife species in respect to which compensation may be paid whether there is death or injury, there was mention of elephant, lion, leopard, rhino, hyena, crocodile, cheetah, buffalo, poisonous snakes, hippo, sharks and stonefish. We get destruction even from monkeys. There is whales, stingray, wild dogs, and wildebeests. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a timely Bill. What we should do is to tighten and shorten the time of compensating and even the amount that people are supposed to be compensated. If you attack an animal in any part of this country, you will see about three choppers of KWS landing in that area. However, if five Kenyans are killed, nobody bothers. When we talk about voting, it is these Kenyans who vote, it is not the lions or hyenas that vote. After voting, our powers are over and we are left at the mercy of these animals to kill us and destroy our crops and the best we can get is just a story that there will be compensation. Somebody comes to a shamba; we are told the first person to come should be from the Ministry of Agriculture. When the person from the Ministry of Agriculture comes, he tells us he does not have capacity and then from there we have to talk to a person from KWS. Madam Temporary Speaker, there must be proper coordination so that one knows if you talk to the person from the Ministry of Agriculture and the person from KWS, how long will you wait before you get compensation? Thank you."
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