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    "id": 849626,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "We also have the issue of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). As the Senate we must think of how we can ensure that some of the organizations to do CSR. People do not need to make noise for them to engaging in CSR. We do not need to fight, go to court or send petitions for organizations to do CSR. We need to tell the people who are concerned that they need to engage in CSR. We have had so many challenges in the mining sector. Where I come from, there is a place called Karebe where they mine gold. We have had to fight with the management of the company for them to paint even one classroom. Some of the communities that host wild animals have been displaced from their land. They share fences and even protect the animals. Therefore, it should be an honorable duty for the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the conservancies to do CSR in these communities. In this country, you need to beg a local company, multinational company or Government agency for them to build even public toilet, dispensary or maternity wing for the community. The Senate has to look at the issue of CSR by having legislative or policy interventions, so as to bring sanity in that area. Some of these multinationals are too busy and concerned with playing to the public gallery, such that they only do CSR when they want the media to cover them. . I do not know where people go to church nowadays and whether we are reading the same Bible. We are told in the Bible that if you give with your left hand, your right hand should not know about it. However, with the social media age, we have seen that when one gives something or helps someone, they publicize it. Let us ask these companies and multinational agencies that invest in the natural resources that they do not need the media to do some of these things. We do not need to do it as a public relations exercise. They need to do CSR as a duty. There is the story of the Good Samaritan that we should follow. One does not need to show in the media that, for example, KWS has paid school fees for 100 students. Why can we not do it without the publicizing? Why should we use poverty to make profits? This is not just done by KWS, but even the mining sector. Where I come from, we have been pushing the mining companies to do CSR or to even give the community at least one per cent that is provided by the Mining Act, 2015. As a country, we need to agree that we do not need philanthropists that come out to play to the public gallery, just to disappear when the cameras are switched off. I thank Sen. Mwaruma for bringing this Motion. I want him to look into the longevity of this issue. If possible, after this Motion, he should come up with possible amendments to wildlife laws, for us to have legislative and policy interventions that will ensure that our people get justice. Since laws also grow through judicial decisions and jurisprudence, I call upon our Judiciary to put a human face when deciding on a conflict between wildlife and human, so that we protect our people. I support this Motion and hope that the decisions that we will make will not only benefit the people of Taita-Taveta County, but all people in the 47 counties. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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