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"content": "it is not in the mid air. It is also in the counties where the wildlife is; there is no wildlife in mid air. Madam Temporary Speaker, what is happening in Isiolo County, which has been very ably articulated by Sen. Dullo, shows that there is a failure of interdependence between the county governments and the national Government. When it comes to relationship between wildlife and human beings, the KWS is behaving as a predator. In other words, it is there to just look after the animals or protect their so called animals. Even when they are harming human beings, it is the human beings who are wrong. You saw the other day, in one of the newspapers when the Maasai morans had killed a baby elephant to protest against the wildlife encroachment into their environment and the damage that the wildlife would bring to crops and to their own properties. They took the law into their own hands and meted justice, according to them, on a baby elephant. The picture was horrible in the newspapers. However, as it were, the Maasai morans were so angry with the KWS because there they are, hosting these animals in their counties, but the body responsible for ensuring that there is a harmonious relationship between the human beings and the wildlife was not doing its job. Madam Temporary Speaker, listening to Sen. Lesuuda say that when individuals; Kenyan citizens, people who live in counties and elsewhere, demonstrate their disgust with certain ways in which Government policies are implemented, they are doing so, using their rights under the Constitution. No entity should take it upon themselves to again exercise destruction or killing on these people, because they are simply expressing their constitutional rights. The most extreme thing, which is an impunity that has pervaded this nation, is that if you are a law enforcement agent or agency, that responsibility seems to include taking life for any reason; in other words, the extreme form of law enforcement is to punish before somebody is proven guilty. They take the extreme form; that is taking away life. There are very strict laws built on how death sentences can be given in this society. In many civilized societies, death sentences have been abolished. Notwithstanding the fact that the death sentence is still here in this country, you cannot exercise the right to punish somebody by death outside the purview of the courts. That is just against the Constitution and the law. What happened in Isiolo, when our Committee goes to investigate, I think that it should be taken that any law enforcement agent, be it from KWS or any other, who was responsible for taking away life, should be charged with either murder or manslaughter. This is because there was no court of law that sat down anywhere to decide that responsibility is given to any law enforcement agency to take life even if those people were demonstrating. Madam Temporary Speaker, if any of those people that Sen. Dullo has mentioned, had been caught killing a KWS officer, I am quite sure that they would have been in the headlines of the newspapers and arraigned in court the next day. All kind of things would have been done and within no time, a sentence would have been delivered either for manslaughter or murder of that person. I have witnessed cases where security agents guarding the homes of Very Important Persons (VIPs) in this county, when at night they suspect that somebody is coming to attack and they take the initiative to defend themselves and fulfill their responsibilities after that, they are always put under such The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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