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    "id": 1277739,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1277739/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon Dekow Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. In this country, there is a tendency to attach more importance to wildlife than to some of our livestock. I am speaking as a pastoralist. The KWS does not see it as an issue whenever a wild animal kills livestock. They have decided that wild animals can destroy livelihoods of farming communities. Crops in our farms are destroyed by wild animals every now and then. The KWS has decided that it will only compensate certain types of crops. For example, monkeys destroy crops on our farms, but in the compensation programme of KWS, anything destroyed by monkeys is not taken into consideration yet monkeys are the most notorious destroyers of our crops. We also have young children who were killed by wild animals. In my constituency, a young child was killed by a hyena more than five years ago, but KWS has not taken the initiative to compensate the family. In supporting this Petition, I expect the Public Petitions Committee to consider including wild animals that have not been listed thin the compensation programme they should be included in. Also, herders graze livestock in a national park, and KWS rangers round up the livestock, but when a wild animal kills our livestock, KWS does not compensate the owner. With those remarks, I support the Petition."
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