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    "id": 1353585,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1353585/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Central Imenti, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Moses Kirima",
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    "content": "considering this amendment, we should not forget that human-animal conflict is mainly caused by human being activities. If you come to areas where we have wildlife, we have blocked their corridors of migrating from one place to the other. The Government is doing nothing about it. The Government is not compensating the farmers who are in those corridors so that at least those animals can be left freely to be migrating from the places where they give birth and where they live or to migrate at the time when they need to feed, especially when it comes to dry and wet seasons. These animals are very sensitive and they move from one place to the other. At no time Hon. Temporary Speaker, can one be injured unless and until one ventures into those areas where those animals are. In addition, we must also warn ourselves that these animals are a necessity within us. This is because, they bring foreign revenue and so they must be taken care of. It is necessary to include the sharks, whales and those other bigger aquatic animals to be part of the bill. Our people go to the ocean to fish because it is part of human activity and it really improves on our economic value. Sometimes they even cause injuries to our people without being provoked. I understand that there are sharks which follow the travelling ships from the deep ocean to the shallow areas where we have ports. I think compensation is necessary. We have marine officers and marine rangers who should be careful and give warning to people who are in the ocean fishing. The people are not aware and they do not have those gears or items which can warn fishermen in advance such that when they are fishing and getting in, there are those sharks which pursue or follow the cargo ships to eat the drops of foods which are being dropped in the ocean. Our officers have those gadgets which they can warn people in advance that there is looming danger. I remember when there was the ocean backlash; the Tsunami. If it was not for the warning which came from foreign countries, a number of our people could have died in the Indian Ocean, I included because I was in the waters that time. However, because of the warning that came from these advanced countries that have the ability to learn about the weather in advance, many people in Kenya were saved. I am saying that the Government has the responsibility to warn our fishermen that when you are fishing in a certain place, it is safe or it is not safe because there are animals under the water or animals that are approaching from another quarter."
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