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    "id": 406073,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mitaru",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 562,
        "legal_name": "Rose Rwamba Mitaru",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I was looking forward to the opportunity and hoping that time would not lapse before I could say what this Bill means to my people of Embu County. Where I come from, we have a lot of elephants “housed” near Mount Kenya. The people around that area have a big problem. Every season, elephants harvest their crops. Sometimes they kill people around there and nothing is done. I also come from near the hydro-electric power dams, where there are so many crocodiles. When our livestock go to drink water from the dams, they are sometimes attacked and killed by crocodiles. Very early in the morning, sometimes women and children go to the dams to fetch. The crocodiles know that, that is the time when women go there to fetch water. We have lost very many families to crocodiles. It is very sad that when we report such attacks to the relevant authorities, they do not take any action simply because it is not a wild animal that has been killed but a human being. We also have snakes that bite people, especially when it is very hot. We have amputees in that area. When KWS officers are called, they do not even attend to such cases. So, my people are very worried. Sometimes we wonder who is more honoured in this country. Is it the crocodile that has eaten a person and left a family without a mother or a father or is it the person who kills a snake which has bitten his child? Such a person is arrested and taken to court. We have a Kisumu Ndogo in Embu County because we have many people who have come from other constituencies and counties to do fishing. The hippos have also learnt to kill those people. We report to the authorities but nothing is done. Whenever a victim is compensated, the amount is so little that we wonder what it means. A hippo has killed a bread winner, a person who has been fishing and bringing fish to Nairobi in order to sustain his family, and his family is then compensated with very little money or almost nothing. It also takes a very long time before the compensation is made. When one sustains injuries, the best that people in the neighbourhood do is to sit together and sell their livestock to support the person in hospital so that he can get treatment. I propose that if any wild animal attacks a human being, the KWS officials must go to the scene and record the incident. If there are medical bills to be paid, the victims 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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