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    "id": 358131,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ganya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, aware that over 600 pieces of ivory worth Kshs100 million were intercepted at the Port of Mombasa in March, 2013, headed for Indonesia; concerned that more than 1000 elephants have died in the last 3 years; aware that the Government declared poaching in the country a disaster; noting that a pound of ivory can now fetch more than 1,000 dollars in the black market, and as result tens of thousands of elephants are slaughtered across Africa; also aware that the Far East, and China in particular is a market hub for poached ivory; further concerned that over 211 elephants were poached in 2011 alone, with 384 elephants poached in 2012, and another 74 elephants lost since the beginning of 2013; deeply concerned with the negative impact this will have on the tourism industry in particular and the entire economy in general; this House urges the Government to tighten the measures in place for curbing poaching by increasing the number of game rangers deployed to the game parks and by coming up with more punitive measures to deter poaching."
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