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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, grazing is not an act of human beings, livestock move and it is not like cultivating a farm is a national park. Animals like livestock stray into national parks. In my view, it is so punitive to punish a herdsman whose livestock strays into a national park by putting him in jail for two years simply because his animal has strayed into the national park. This is likely to be abused. Unless that section is repealed, we should build prison cells for our herdsmen because they cannot control the livestock from straying to the national parks. I hope the Chairperson of the Committee is listening. I know she is able and she is also a pastoralist. It is serious, if any animal strays into a national park, the owner gets into trouble of being jailed for two years. I know that rangers can use the same to abuse our people. We need to look at that and I think, in my opinion, we should remove it. There are other things that I looked at in this Bill, which is very nice and I support it. There are gaps that we must fill before we pass it. If you look at the compensation part of this Bill, there are things that need some sort of uniform distribution on how to do compensation. For example, if a human being is killed by wildlife today, and you know it happens so often in areas where people keep livestock, you are compensated with a maximum of Kshs1million. But if you kill the endangered species of wildlife, you get fined about Kshs10 million and several years in jail. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you look at it thoroughly, the life of a human being is compared to the possession of any trophy. So, if you possess any trophy today--- where I come from, Samburu have a lot of trophies; not because they killed wildlife yesterday or the day before that, it is because some of those trophies are passed from generation to generation. In this Bill, it says that if any of our people is caught with those trophies, they are fined about Kshs1 million. 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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