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    "id": 1353590,
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    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya Yaa",
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    "content": "dolphins and stone fish. We have all manner of creatures in the sea and my people keep on being attacked all the time. When it comes to compensation, they cannot be compensated and families loose. You have people whose limbs are cut. They cannot have any gainful employment or gainful activities after that because of something that happened at the sea and yet they cannot be compensated. I like the position that she has taken. We are not adding any more funds. The money is already there. What we want is equity. A person who is attacked by an elephant and a person who is attacked by a shark gets equal compensation and it is possible. I think a law that is a quick gain and a quick win is welcome so that people do not get scared to go to sea. Hon. Temporary Speaker, when you are in that sea, you have a vessel, a boat, a dhow and a shark comes and cuts it in the middle. You have spent 2 million to build a boat. However, when that accident happens, it is been caused by an animal, you are not compensated but in another event somebody gets compensated. I think this is a law that brings equity. We say that when we come to seek equity, we are coming with clean hands. Help our people get the compensation that they deserve. Fishing is one of the contributors to this economy. We are encouraging very many people to go to the sea and fish. Today I have many cases in my constituency, where a lot of our young people are embracing fishing out there. The KRA officers come and arrest them and they tell them to pay tax before they go to fish and they have to have a licence. I keep on wondering, if I want to go to my farm to farm and get maize, I am not asked for a licence but when I want to go to the ocean, which is actually the farm of the local people there, they are told they must get licences."
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