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    "id": 389973,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Omulele",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Omulele",
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    "content": "We must, therefore, look at these people who live at close proximity with our wildlife and make sure that they feel that the wildlife is also important to them and they have, therefore, a role to take care of it. It is a good thing that the substantive Bill is coming up, so that we can fully debate this and come up with a system and a scale on which we shall compensate our people who suffer from the wildlife conflict and the activities that our people carry along the corridors that interface with our wildlife santuaries. We should not just look at it in terms of putting there a figure of, for example, Kshs200,000 for injury or Kshs1 million for death. I propose that when we are looking at the substantive Bill, we should look at it alongside the well healed principles of common law practice where compensation is aimed at putting the person on whom that torturous activity has imparted in the position in which he was before that torturous activity happened to him, so that we should not just say that the ceiling will be Kshs1 million. We should look at every case as it arises and come up with a system where people will be compensated for the real loss that they have suffered. With those few remarks, as we discuss the main Bill when it comes to the Floor, we should look at this in terms of the common law practice which is analogous, which has been the case in accident claims so that we do not just say that because Omulele has died, we pay Kshs1 million. We should look at this with a clear mind on the value that your life was to your family, to your people and the level of education that you had attained. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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