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    "id": 405971,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Shaban",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I also want to add my voice in congratulating the team that has put this Bill together but I have issues that I need to raise. Under Clause 8(f), one of the functions of the KWS will be to develop mechanisms for benefit sharing with communities living in wildlife areas. I am assuming that, that is what they have all along been doing, which is part of their corporate social responsibility, which includes employment of youth coming from those particular areas. Hon. Speaker, I just want to talk about Tsavo West and Tsavo East national parks. Taita-Taveta is home to very many elephants living in the Tsavo National Park. Tsavo West National Park actually forms the bulk of my constituency. I just want to point out the pain and the heartache that the people who live around those areas suffer. We suffer not only losses relating to crop destruction but we also suffer losses when it comes to the supposed mechanisms through which the communities are supposed to benefit. You find that as the KWS goes about its business, recruiting people, the people from those areas are the biggest losers in the sense that during recruitment of personnel, the KWS hardly takes 10 per cent of the recruits from those areas. We are supposed to benefit from these mechanisms. If the communities living around wildlife areas are not the most important ones, I wonder who are. These are people who live with these animals. They are the people who have been taking care of these animals. Hon. Speaker, if the communities living around wildlife areas decide that they do not want to see the wild animals, we will have a situation where we will not really have the wild animals, because the animals are actually a big menace and have been causing conflicts. Some of the wild animals and more so elephants; which happen to have a very high IQ amongst other animals, behave like human beings. Elephants leave their areas of 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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