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    "id": 93799,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Otichilo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to take this opportunity to thank the Ministry for the good job they are doing. Since the issue of climate change came up, we have at least seen a lot of interest by the Government, NGOs and the civil society in the need to conserve our environment. Therefore, I want to thank the Ministry for the good work they are doing. I want to ask them to ensure that they do better than what they are doing now. I also want to thank the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) for the good job they are doing. I want to commend the management of KWS for the work they are doing in the conservation of our wildlife resources, including forests. I also want to say that the Kenya Forest Service is doing a good job. I believe that with its recent restructuring, they will do an even much better job. I believe that the Kenya Forest Service needs to be strengthened, particularly in terms of capacity building. It is a young organisation, and we need to build its capacity. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as regards wildlife management, I want to say that for the time I have been in this Parliament, all the Questions that have come to this House are on human-wildlife conflict and wildlife utilisation. I want to appeal to the Minister to make every effort in the Cabinet and make sure that the Wildlife Policy and the Wildlife Bill, which were prepared way back in 2004, are implemented. I am lucky to have been one of the persons who participated in that process. The Wildlife Policy and the Wildlife Bill have been in the Cabinet. The Bill and the Policy have all the solutions we can implement to address the issues of human- wildlife conflict, wildlife utilisation programmes, and community participation in conservation programmes. So, I want to take this opportunity to appeal to the Minister to take a very serious note of this one. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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