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    "id": 1353617,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "of knowledge. One of the problems that we have in the Conservation and Management Act with respect to compensation is that there are not enough funds for compensation. The compensation is greatly delayed, sometimes for years on-end. One of the issues we need to deal with is to ring-fence that compensation fund so that it is rightly used for the purpose of compensating death and damage. Coming to the issue of our sea border, meaning the continental shelf and our nautical sea border, I facetiously talked about that dangerous “animal” called the pirate. When piracy was rife from Somalia, our fish were saved for many reasons. Many of the fishing vessels from Europe, China and wherever were scared to come into certain levels. Despite that, much of our fish has been going to Mauritius and Seychelles. We feel that as much as we are looking at the compensation, our fishermen are the ones who get hurt the most through this illegal action of piracy. As much as we are talking about the blue economy, and the sea shelf, there is still a pending matter. Our neighbours have demanded and claimed 80 per cent of our seashore, what our sea rights are, nautically and across. That is one thing in the triangle they are talking about, that has a lot of oil and other fish. I was in Mombasa when we were talking about sea fishing. The fisheries department told me that we take less than 5 per cent of fish that is fished in our territorial waters. The remaining goes elsewhere. That is one thing we need to work on. If Nairobi National Park or one of our national parks, like the Maasai Mara or Serengeti are closed… Let us say Tanzania wants to take over part of Serengeti. We are very particular. Hon. Farah Maalim was very vocal on the issue of sea borders and what we could get from the blue economy, but he forgot to tell us that 80 per cent of it is claimed by somebody else. What are we doing about it? That is one thing that we must most importantly move on from. Finally, Hon. Temporary Speaker, I wholeheartedly support this. However, there are other fish called mbuta. I said I would move this during the amendment. Those who jokingly say mbuta is not a dangerous fish, I assure you that it is very dangerous. I also see that crocodiles are there in the deaths and injuries, but alligators are not there. There is a very distinct difference when you are killed by the alligator and not the crocodile or any other larger fish in the fresh water. Those can upset a boat and even attack fishermen. Those things must be included in this list. I will propose that inclusion by way of amendment. Thank you for the time you have afforded me."
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