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    "id": 358206,
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    "speaker_name": "The Member for Laikipia West",
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    "content": "(Hon. (Dr). Karani): Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. My names are hon. Dr. Wachira Karani, Member of Parliament for Laikipia West Constituency. I want to take this opportunity to congratulate the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker for having been elected in their respective positions. I also want to thank the people of Laikipia West for giving me this opportunity to represent them in this Eleventh Parliament. I would like to oppose this Motion. The reason is this: Where I come from – that is Laikipia - in the last one year, I have had the honour to attend three burials of people who have been killed by elephants. The hon. Member who has proposed this Motion was mean in giving the figures of the population of elephants in the last five years. He gave the figures of the elephants that have been killed, but he never mentioned anything about their population, which has increased tremendously. In fact, where I come from, all you can talk about elephants is bad news. We have had cases of elephants trampling on people and their livestock. Elephants trample on our crops. We have problems with elephants. Whereas we talk about tourism, in my constituency that is one area that has killed the morale of our people. This year, for example, we had good rains in our constituency. But we fear we may not harvest much because of the elephant menace. Therefore, when I look at this Motion I feel very very sad. I look at the penalty the Mover has proposed and wonder: If, for example, we are going to jail people for 15 years and fine them Kshs10 million depending on how we"
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