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    "id": 138852,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kathuri",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Emilio Mureithi Kathuri",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Motion and the Vote for the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife. I would want to start by saying that this Ministry has a lot of correlation with the Ministries of Land, Water and Irrigation and Environment and Mineral Resources. All these Ministries solely depend on the functions of the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife. Why do I say this? If you check in this country any area where there are no trees, we call that place a desert. For us to covert that place so that it does not become a desert, we must do afforestation. Afforestation does not fall in any other docket. If we do afforestation we get water. If we get water, we irrigate land. When we irrigate land, we are able to do activities related to agriculture which would be of economic gains to the community. It is also important to realise that if we do not do afforestation, definitely we will be talking of the environment having being interfered with. This Ministry is of paramount importance to this country. It is for this reason that I believe that whatever they are allocated is not enough to sustain the activities they are meant to undertake. It is also true that they are not doing enough to even attract sympathy and attention from many of us who are really supporting them morally, if not materially. When we talk of the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, we know that it is our lifeline. They have many agendas. Some of them have tasks which are enormous enough to overwhelm them. But we would expect to see at least, some effort which will make us also see that they are working. A good example is the human-wildlife conflict. Lives have been lost and questions have been asked in this House. It is very worrying when we see paltry compensation given to those who have suffered fatal injuries arising out of attacks by wildlife. A good example is my blood uncle, brother to my mother who succumbed to death as a result of injuries occasioned by an elephant from Mt. Kenya Forest. There was no compensation. How do you expect the communities living within the area to become protectors of the wildlife? We need this wildlife so that we can attract tourists and at least the Kenyan Government can earn some revenue from them. It will not be possible if we do not address the human-wildlife conflict. Our crops are being destroyed by monkeys and other animals which feed on fodder and crops."
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