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    "id": 849602,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 347,
        "legal_name": "Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko",
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    "content": "intensity of conflict, the amount of compensation sought or that will be necessary to create tranquility may become unsustainable to Government. So, it is important to find out, for instance, why animals such as elephants leave their park and roam in certain places where human beings settle. It is important to understand why lions leave Nairobi National Park or any park and go to other places in search of what they are looking for and come across human beings and, therefore, exacerbate the conflict and cause the need to have this compensation. At some given stage, because of the pressure that we experience as human beings that force us to encroach the animal settlement areas, the same pressure is probably experienced by the same animals. So, the same animals will also have to leave their natural settlement area and come to where we are settled. So, it is very important, as we look for resources, we set aside funds to compensate those who have suffered personal loses and loses of property because of wildlife. We should also look for resources to ensure that we keep safe, productive and peaceful distance between us and the wildlife without having to promote this conflict. Many of us Senators here may speak quite emotionally about loss of life. I am sure if we were to understand the language of wildlife and the wildlife were to speak and say how they also lose their lives because of us, that would also be another tragedy. So, it is important to have what is called a balanced discussion about how the conflict is. You will notice that a lot of this wildlife is endangered. Some of them like the rhinos, turtles and snakes are endangered because we are very merciless when we encounter them. Some of them are extinct because of our desire for money and we do so without regard to the fact that our children will dearly miss them when they become extinct because we have exterminated them. It is also important to carry out education and advocacy among our people to understand the need to conserve wildlife, be protective of them and adhere to the biblical commandment. If you look at Genesis 1:28, although we were given sovereignty over all the creations, we were directed that we should manage them and ensure that they do not become extinct. So, it is important for human activities to be balanced against the need to sustain management of the environment and resources that are given to us by nature. By extension, if you look at that argument, you will also find out that – if you look at the Bible or Koran and the order of creation, wildlife, both botanical and zoological came into existence before human beings. So, if you were to appear before God‟s court and say that you own the land, perhaps the animals owned it before us or they owned the waters before us because the order of creation is that human beings were created the last and we found all these animals and crops in existence. As we think about how to balance the conflict and also compensate people of this good society called Kenya who have suffered losses because of wildlife, let us also understand that if you were to have an advocate for wildlife on one side and another advocate for human lives on the other side, perhaps we would lose the case because they were here before we were there. Their rights to roam all over the place, including the city could even be superior to our rights because we came after, if ownership is on the basis of who came first, but that is neither here nor there. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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