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    "content": "I come from a county that neighbuors many conservancies. However, the challenge is that the communities neighbouring those conservancies do not even know the importance of those conservancies. That requires a bit of capacity building so that members of the public can appreciate the wild animals and the conservancies. One of the conservancies that is neighbouring Isiolo County is really helping communities by building schools, drilling boreholes and initiating many other projects. However, can the conservancies go out a bit and ensure that members of public appreciate what they are doing and that they are involved in the management of those conservancies?Those who are looking at this Petition should do that. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is a lot of suspicion on the funding aspects of those conservancies. Members of the public feel that the managers of those conservancies are the ones who benefit more than the individuals neighbouring the conservancies. Something needs to be done so that members of the public have confidence in those conservancies. It is true that we should protect these animals but why is it that the animals are more important than human beings? In Isiolo County, for example, we have more than 1,000 people whose rights have been violated by those wild animals. To date, they have not been compensated. Some of them even have lost their fathers and husbands but it looks as if we are nurturing the animals more than human beings. Can the conservancies also look into the issue of violation by the wild animals that they are taking care of such that when it happens, they should compensate those individuals? Let that also come out in this Petition. It should look at how the communities can benefit from violation and the conservancies whenever it happens. On the issue of counties coming up with contribution towards the conservancies, I think that we need legislation and the reason we should contribute towards that conservancy. That has to come out properly. Unless that is put on the table, I think that the counties will not be ready to contribute towards the conservancy. There is also the issue of capacity building of the communities within those areas that I talked of earlier. This is very good but we need to sit together as a conservancy, the leadership and the communities neighbouring those conservancies, to understand what the conservancies are doing. Some of the individuals within those conservancies are violating the rights of citizens. We need to understand what is within those perimeter walls."
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