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    "id": 849592,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/849592/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "In some areas in Europe, they have even created departments which are responsible for ensuring that action is taken, once a wild animal is spotted. These departments advise people, that once they spot a snake in their own house or farm, they do not kill it. One is supposed to report to the respective department who will capture it nicely and release it to a far area, rather than kill it. The same happens in the fishing communities. Sharks can be very dangerous. They have ensured that sharks which tend to move near the shores where people are swimming are properly controlled and monitored so that they are not killed. However, if people get bitten by the sharks, there are quick measures which are put in place; like being rushed to the nearest hospital for treatment and so on. Madam Temporary Speaker, the same thing happens with lions. I stay near the Nairobi National Park and sometimes lions escape and they attack people. On Thursday, the lions were in my plot and I was very worried. Fortunately, I did not have a gun because I fear even holding one. If I had one, my immediate instinct would have been to shoot that lion. Luckily, I did not do so. I called the wildlife people who took it away. We saw on television how communities react by killing lions, because wildlife people have not responded in time to such situations. We have seen lions killed. One of them was captured on television and it had gun wounds. Moreover, we have seen elephants destroying a whole crop. In situations where the villagers have called the wildlife people and they did not respond in time, they take the law into their own hands and kill the elephant. In addition to everything else, there is need to have proper management by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). They have to respond in time to distress calls made by the villagers who border national parks. These villagers have been very patient. They have waited and they have lost property because of their patience but once it runs out, the immediate thing that they do is to kill the elephant."
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