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    "id": 406046,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Upfront, I want to differ with my colleague who contributed from that side that we should not attach a lot of importance to our wildlife, being a tourist attraction. That is a God given asset, the same way people in Arabia have been given oil or South Africans have been given gold. This is our gold! We should protect, promote and exploit it for the benefit of our people. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we actually promoted tourism in this country on the grounds of wildlife. We will probably have more visitors like the visitors who visit Malaysia in a year. Malaysia has got a population of 23 million people. They do receive 26 million tourists in a year. All they have to show is rubber plantations and two twin towers. They have no sun beaches, wildlife, and mountains with snow at the top, no lakes or glaciers. We should use this wildlife to promote our economy and our people to eradicate poverty. Therefore, it is an asset given by God, only that we have not used it well. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also want to contribute on section 31(2) where it says that if a wildlife kills a human being, that human being is compensated by a maximum of Kshs1 million. Kisii people are used to hunting and that is why we wiped out all the wildlife in Kisii land. It is said that I will be fined Kshs20 million if I kill wildlife. What is that? That, that gazelle is much more valuable than my life? An amendment should be made to this section so that compensation for human beings is higher than wildlife. In any case, God created wildlife for us to eat. That is why they were created, not the other way round. Therefore, that should be amended to make it reasonable. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also see that when wildlife damages my crops, for example, what I can get as compensation is Kshs200,000. But if I stray into wildlife sanctuary, I have to be fined Kshs200,000. That is a travesty! If they damage my property, the value of that should be compensated. The same way we do, if you get an accident in a vehicle, that insurance pays the value of the damage caused by that accident. I have also not seen in this Bill where communities that reside within the conservancies will benefit. There must be a clause in this Bill saying that, maybe, 10 or 20 per cent of any proceeds arising from the existence of the wildlife in a given area should go to the communities concerned. This will be an incentive for the communities that have been able to keep these wild animals with them over the years. When I was ten years old, there were a lot of gazelles and impalas in Kisii land, but they are all wiped out. The Maasai, the Kikuyus and the Samburus who have kept all 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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