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"content": "job description that would again require an amendment, it will not be necessary. Therefore, I would urge hon. Members that any Bill that proposes the formation of a directorate, would amount to over-legislation. Fourthly, we will be proposing amendments that will strengthen the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). In strengthening their core mandate, we have removed the regulatory role from KWS, which they have now. The Bill had suggested the formation of a regulatory council. As a Committee, we would want to propose to this House that the regulatory council is unnecessary. It is the work of the Cabinet Secretary to manage policy and regulation. Therefore, we will be giving that assignment to the Cabinet Secretary to strengthen his function in wildlife conservation. The other issue is that, we felt that the Bill proposes unnecessary duplication of roles. We will be proposing the collapse of the County Wildlife Conservation Committee because we feel that additional functions and two members will handle the work that the compensation committee will be doing. Fifthly, as I said, I have worked in this sector and one of the things I have noted is that all the major players happen to be graduates of WCSA (Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania) Moshi. Any time you go to a conservation conference, whether it is in Ethiopia, South Africa or whichever other place, they all say they went to WCSA. We feel that Kenya needs to have an institution similar to WCSA, if not stronger. Therefore, we will be proposing to this House that we establish the wildlife research and training institute. I want us to note that the research institute is very important because as of now, if you talk about research you will be talking about Dr. Paula Kahumbu and Dr. David Western, but you will not talk about an institution. What if these people die? As a country, where are we going to have a depository of the research that we have been doing in this sector? So, with that institute, we would be able to have both Government and university academia and players in the sector doing research that has a home. Therefore, we urge hon. Members to support. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have already talked about the regulatory council. The fact that we want to tighten and strengthen the regulatory mechanism, we do not believe that we need to set up an extra institution as has been proposed by the Bill. Hon. Members should note that even the Ministry of Environment, Water and Mineral Resources has finally agreed with us that this was not necessary. All we need to do is to make the role of Cabinet Secretary easier. What we have done is that we are proposing that every five years, there will be a strategic plan for the sector developed so that, that could then be the basis on which we measure the output of Cabinet Secretary, rather than have no strategy and no management plan. Therefore, we will be proposing that. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, to deal with the issue of human-wildlife conflict, and to further the spirit of mutual co-existence between wildlife and communities, we have proposed some amendments that would improve ownership of resources by communities. The Committee will, therefore, be proposing an elaborate compensation plan. Let me begin by what has not been there in the past. Due to abuse by some people, the Wildlife Act of 1975 was amended to reject compensation for crop destruction by wildlife. We are recommending the reinstatement, but we are saying 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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