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    "id": 377736,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/377736/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, aware that smallholder farmers living in the buffer zone around the Mount Kenya National Park and Forest Reserve have struggled for years with the elephants that regularly invade their land and destroy their crops, which is a costly affair for these smallholder farmers where livelihoods are often lost in a single night raid; concerned that hardly a day goes by without an incident occurring between farmers and the elephants in the area; noting that Elephants from the park easily stray outside its perimeters and cause damage to crops, domestic animals and homes, and even injury and death; and further aware that the Kenya Wildlife Service’ compensation mechanism is wanting and unsatisfactory, giving only Kshs. 200,000 for death and Kshs.50,000 for injury and nothing for crop or property damage, this House urges the Government to enhance the claim for persons killed from the current Kshs.200,000 to Kshs.1,000,000 and for those injured from Kshs.50,000 to Kshs.200,000 and also consider compensating farmers for destroyed crops and property based on value. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Motion touches on two important sectors in our economy. Tourism is one of the highest foreign exchange earner in the economy of Kenya. It contributes a substantial percentage in the foreign exchange, actually over 50 per cent of what we usually earn from exports. What normally attracts tourists to our country is not really our white sand beaches; it is not the beautiful valleys and the mountains because all these can be found in other parts of the world; it is not the vegetation, say the forests, because those can also be found in other parts of the world,"
}