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    "id": 1340788,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John K. Mutunga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I wish to thank the Member for bringing this particular Petition. Tigania West also borders a national reserve, the South Imenti Forest, which has elephants and other animals. We have frequent visits by the elephants in our constituency. People of Luuria, Kanjai and Kamitonga have been suffering a lot of losses due to destruction of their crops. Coincidentally, when it is about time to harvest the crops, that is when we see these elephants breaking through. Sometimes, we imagine that the electric fence is switched off so as to allow them entry into the farms to feed themselves. I will give you a classic example of what happened in the last season. There was a bit of drought in that part of Meru. We had rare visitors. Elephants from Shaba National Reserve had come all the way to Tigania West. They visited our farmers and decided to graze on their farms. Incidentally, the game rangers from KWS were accompanying and guarding them to graze on the farms. Peculiarly, they even had carried forms for people to apply for compensation. This was one case of sheer impunity. They graze on the farms to keep the animals alive yet the people are left with hunger. The KWS needs to be serious on compensation and taking care of people's property. I support the Petition."
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