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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "It is okay, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. It is only that you got me off guard. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I want to support but in doing so, I would want to say that I know that one of the biggest problems that we have had with the old Act is especially on issues of compensation. Compensation for human-wildlife conflict, if you look at Clause 9 against Clause 79, is very imbalanced. We are giving more value to animals than we are attaching to human beings and I think that is why the Leader of Majority Party was opposed to the fines and punishment as obtains now. I do not think that there is anything that is wrong with the punishment as obtains but I think what we need to do is enhance the compensation that is given to human beings so that we are not punishing you when you hurt an animal but when the animal hurts you we put a lower premium on your life as a human being. I come from an area that is prone to human-wildlife conflict especially attacks from hippopotamus and crocodiles from the lake and the issue of compensation is usually very problematic. First of all, it takes too long. So, we must define very clearly in the Act a timeframe because there are families which spend 20 years seeking compensation which they are not paid and yet their relatives’ lives were lost. I, therefore, agree with the Members who are talking about enhancing the money. I also want to talk about the issue that a Member raised about what the Senate is doing that is similar to this. We must find a mechanism of harmonizing the work of this House and that of the Senate. This is because I also noticed that the Senate was moving a Motion on a matter that we passed as law in the last Parliament. Really, why would we like to waste so much State resources to do work which is useless? This is because, to me, it is useless if there is already a law and you are passing a Motion which is at a lower level in terms of legislative effect."
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