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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nanok",
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        "legal_name": "Josephat Koli Nanok",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Indeed, I would like to congratulate my colleague, hon. Lenny Kivuti, for asking this particular Question. I can only tell him that this morning, a delegation led by the Chairman of the Mbeere County Council came to see me in the office. I gathered my officers to come and discuss this matter. It is not only about the Kiambere Dam, but all the Seven Forks Dams, the problems affecting the people and how we can put in place immediate long term measures to resolve the issue. Some of the issues we have agreed on and, indeed, KWS has already done, is to put up a team of five rangers with a boat to patrol the dam. They started working as from 9th this month at Kiambere Dam. Secondly, we have also laid some traps. Some of my colleagues may have seen that in the newspapers. You may have seen some of the traps that KWS has laid in that area to capture those crocodiles. One of the things that we agreed in the meeting – and, fortunately, the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Lands and Natural Resources and MP for Gachoka came to the meeting - was that with immediate effect, in the next few days, the fencing of the six critical water fetching points around the Kiambere Dam will be done by KWS. Since we have stakeholders in all the seven dams, including KenGen, TARDA and county council, we have scheduled on Wednesday, a stakeholders meeting which will discuss how best we can put the medium-term measures to ensure that the community is provided with water from the dam. It may be difficult right now to say that we can eliminate all the crocodiles. I think that is going to be very difficult. On a case-by-case basis, we can do that. However, the best thing we can do is to look at the option of putting walls around some parts of the dam and fencing off the area with chain link where people can access and fetch water without being disturbed. The last thing that my colleague has raised is about compensation. I know I have said it in this House several times that we are going to bring a revised Wildlife Bill. Among the issues that will feature is increasing the compensation amount from the current level that the law allows. We had to review the Bill again after the new Constitution was put in place. Very soon, I believe in a few weeks’ time, we will be engaging the Committee that oversees my Ministry and the stakeholders so that we can begin the process of taking the final Bill to the Cabinet and finally to this House for enactment."
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