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    "id": 406036,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Eric Keter",
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        "legal_name": "Eric Arap Keter",
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    "content": "beings and animals, the animals were made for man; not man for the animals. In this case, when I look at the compensation issue where a poacher is fined Kshs20 million and a human being who has lost life is compensated only Kshs1 million, I think it does not make much sense. I would like an amendment to be preferred as far as compensation is concerned. Much as we punish the poachers to the extent of Kshs.20 million, let us also have those who lose lives get compensated with the same amount. If the worse comes to worst, it should be Kshs10 million. This is a human being who has got dependants, say, children, grandchildren and so on. When such a person’s life is taken away by an animal, the Government only comes in to say, “It is bad, we appreciate, but here is Kshs1 million.” We need to rethink this issue. Much as we are talking about wildlife conservation, I would like this issue to go to the youth also. We should encourage our youth to appreciate our wildlife. In cases where those children are taken for tours, they should be taxed very little. You will find that schools pay a lot of money as entrance fees when they tour some of the game reserves and parks. I suggest that we lower those fees drastically so that we encourage school visits. Those are the same people who will conserve those animals in the future. We need to have a wildlife institute that will be researching on ways of conserving wildlife. This will help us understand the need for co-existence between human beings and wildlife. The responsibility of ensuring that there is security of human beings should be left to this Ministry. It should ensure that there is an electric fence--- Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not see why we are fast at getting resources and yet, we do not safeguard lives. Why can the Ministry not ensure that game parks have electric fences? We need to encourage private owners also. I know there are individuals with large tracts of land and sometimes animals invade them and they are not compensated. So, if we have to promote wildlife conservation, we need to compensate farmers when they are affected by the wildlife. At times, the farmers develop a passion to kill those animals. I would like us to look into that area."
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