{"id":33877,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/33877/?format=json","text_counter":159,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Nanok","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":57,"legal_name":"Josephat Koli Nanok","slug":"josephat-nanok"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, I did not send any SMS text as the Assistant Minister for Forestry and Wildlife. As I have said clearly, what the Masol Community and the hon. Member were launching was a strategic plan that has so many future proposals. I want to repeat that no formal engagement has been done with my Ministry with regard to establishment of a conservancy. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have a law under the Wildlife (Conservation and Management) Act. Cap.376, Sections 19 and 67 regulate how requests for conservancies and approvals have to be established. I want to read Section 19(1):- “The Minister may, after consultation with the competent authority, by notice in the Gazette, declare that any specified area shall be a local sanctuary wherein any animal specified in the same or a later notice shall not be hunted.” (2) The area of local sanctuary shall not exceed two thousand six hundred hectares” Thank you."}