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    "id": 66161,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nanok",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Josephat Koli Nanok",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not actually avoiding his question. I think this is a concern all over. Since 2008 when I was appointed to this Ministry, we have been making strong comments about the need for the KWS budget to be increased. This is because, basically, poaching and human/wildlife conflict have been on the increase. But we have not been able to recruit the 1,400 rangers that we need to meet the optimum number, for us to be able to undertake our responsibility. After perusing all options, we realized that going to the 287 districts would still mean recruiting one or two rangers per district and I do not think it would have made economic sense. The hon. Member is one of those from Isiolo that had slots of 11 rangers and his own constituency got six out of the 11. To me, this is very fair. If he has concerns, I think we can re-look at them so that in future, when budgetary amounts are increased, we can take this recruitment down to the constituency or district level."
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