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    "id": 451839,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/451839/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Let me also say something about Vote D110, which is on the Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. My concern here is in the Department of Wildlife and Conservation. One cannot really underestimate the importance of tourism in this country. Some years back, it was even the highest foreign income earner, but what has been happening in the recent three years? There has been poaching, the killing of wildlife; our natural heritage. We are blessed as a country because not very many countries are left with this heritage; the wildlife. The way elephants and rhinos have been killed in the recent past is really worrying. If I have to give an example, the only rhino that we had in the Nairobi National Orphanage was killed by poachers and it was the most protected wild animal in the country. It was right at the doorstep of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) headquarters and it was killed by poachers. So, if that rhino was not safe, what about those roaming in the big national parks? Through this Supplementary Budget, if a lot of money could be availed to the personnel in that department for buying of equipment and also increasing the number of personnel to monitor our wildlife, that will be very important. We do not want to hear of cases whereby over 300 hundred elephants are killed by poachers in one financial year. The Department of Wildlife Conservation needs to be supported. However, they also need to pull up their socks w ith the limited resources that they have to show their seriousness. By doing that, they will avert the looming talk that it might be an in-house thing or those charged with the responsibility of protecting these wild animals may have a hand in what is happening; they may be part of the poaching schemes. With regard to D1 or D2, it is related to security. It is a Vote for the Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government. Insecurity has been very rampant in 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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