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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Omulele",
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Omulele",
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    "content": "Among those roles – and this is going to obviate the concerns that Members have raised – is that the Committee shall undertake educational extension services and public awareness. That is where our people – our fellow Kenyans - will be educated. They will know why they need to conserve wildlife, what value it has to them and have a chance to participate in formulating the policies that will be used in conserving it. I am happy about that. The Committee will develop a mechanism to mitigate human-wildlife conflicts, so that the fears we have about the conflict - and we have spoken about it too well - will be dealt with in a participatory way. Our people, those who are actually at the knife’s edge, will have a chance to speak and say how those conflicts can be obviated. In that regard, this Act has gone quite a distance in addressing the salient issues that face our wildlife and the conflict with human beings. I am also pleased that the Bill is emphatic at Part Six, about the conservation and protection of the environment. As much as we are conserving and protecting our wildlife, it is of paramount importance that we must do this. We must ensure that the environment is always conserved. In Section 37, I am happy to note that we have provided and are proposing that this should become law; that any activity which is likely to have an adverse effect on the environment is expressly prohibited. For a long time, wildlife conservation and management in this county has been in the hands of expatriates and a few who have been in the know. They have acted in ways that have been harmful to our environment. Any act where any toxic or any other activity that may injure the environment shall be expressly prohibited and anybody who undertakes any such adverse activity will face the full force of the law. I am happy about that provision. I am also happy to note that all wildlife is protected and I would like to inform my brother, hon. Katana, who fears that marine life is not protected under this Act that, that is not so. In Section 38, it is clear that all wildlife and marine life is protected and again, I 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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