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    "id": 759749,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/759749/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kinyua",
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        "legal_name": "John Kinyua Nderitu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I beg to support this Petition and we should seriously work on it. This is because the area that I come from, Laikipia County, this is the biggest problem that we have; human-wildlife conflict. For instance, if you go to a place called Kinamba, we hardly plant any crops because we neighbour big ranches which have a lot of elephants. After we plant, it is the elephants which come to harvest the crops and yet we cannot milk the elephants. That is our big problem. Whenever we seek compensation, we are taken round in circles. Therefore, I recommend that we move swiftly and make sure that we operationalize this Act so that when our livestock are eaten by leopards, we can be paid. This is because as Sen. Olekina said, most of us are pastoralists who depend on our livestock. Once they are eaten by lions, we do not know exactly what to do. The other problem is that whenever we erect our fences, these animals destroy them and we do not get compensation. So, I recommend that this Petition should be acted on quickly so that we can have a lasting solution and stop our persistent complaints. In many parts of Laikipia County, especially now that there is a lot of drought, we have a lot of problems because even the animals themselves cannot get enough grass or pasture where they live. So, they end up in our farms and we end up with a lot of problems. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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