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    "id": 1353622,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1353622/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Masinga, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Mwalyo",
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    "content": "Therefore, it is very important for us to balance all the compensations that are done. That is because of animals in the bushes and even the ones that are out there in the sea. For example, you are saying that crops destroyed by elephants, lions or leopards will be compensated. However, the family of a fisherman who is fishing and is eaten by a shark is not compensated anything. There should be equality, because all of us are human beings and Kenyans. The Government is one that is able to compensate them. I support the amendment of this Bill to add damages by all the species. Any animal that lives in the sea and its environment should be taken care of in the compensation. People go to the sea day in, day out, where they earn their living. We need to bring all those things together, especially now that we are promoting the blue economy and trying to achieve food sufficiency by harvesting fish in the sea. That includes compensation so that whoever goes into the sea is confident that the law protects him or her, and his or her people can be compensated if anything happens to him or her."
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