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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mohamed Abass",
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        "legal_name": "Abass Sheikh Mohamed",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support the Bill. This is a very excellent Bill but it has some grey areas. This country is actually endowed with a lot of beautiful fauna and flora that has not been conserved for many years and it has been abused badly. I think this Bill will now curtail misuse in abuse of our resources and the fauna and flora of this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Chair of the Committee is not there now but we need to inculcate love of wildlife in children, especially those at the early age. In the past, we used to have 4K and Wildlife clubs in schools but of late this has not been happening and the Bill does not incorporate that early childhood education on wildlife and other natural resources. One other thing is that the Bill is giving a lot of power to the Cabinet Secretary. I think we need to change that on a serious note because a single hand decision is actually very dangerous and can bring punitive issues. I would suggest that the Wildlife Regulatory Council should have more powers in regulatory and conservation issues. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, one other thing is that most of our wildlife is situated in pastoral areas and there is always a problem, especially during the dry period where there is conflict between wildlife, people and the livestock. The Bill is stressing the need for creation of more conservancies and I think this will cause more conflict. One thing I will say is that so far people have huge chunks of conservancies and as you are aware every year the Kenyan population is increasing. The pastoralists’ population is increasing. The livestock population is increasing. So, there is a lot of conflict and in the past we have experienced a lot of killings in the wildlife national parks especially during the dry time when animals stray to people’s homes. People are killed or tortured and they have not been compensated for many years. I request the Bill to also limit the number of conservancies and national parks in the interest of the neighbouring communities and also those that have sacrificed their land for purposes of conservation. In terms of licensing and rights for operation of conservancies, that is what we need to limit. The compensation is not commensurate to the losses. As a country, we 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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