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    "id": 1074491,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaruma",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13223,
        "legal_name": "Johnes Mwashushe Mwaruma",
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    "content": "When you ask the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, they are telling you they are not collecting enough even to run the conservation areas. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you are not collecting enough to run the conservation areas, what do you do? They say that they borrow some money from partners across the world who are keen on conservation. My question is why you do not also borrow money to give the 5 per cent to the communities around the conservation areas. This is so that you can live as per this law: The Wildlife Conservation Act of 2013. How it will look after the amendments, Section 6 should read- “The Cabinet Secretary shall in formulating the guidelines ensure that the guidelines comply with the condition that a minimum of 5 per cent of the benefits from national parks and national reserves shall be allocated to local communities, neighbouring or negatively affected by activities undertaken for the preservation of the national park.” Part (b) should read- “by inserting the following new subsection immediately after Section 4.” We have new Clause 4 (a)- “The determination of the new percentage of the benefits to be allocated to the local communities under sub section (4) shall be based on the gross total revenue and fees collected with respect to the protected area.” Madam Temporary Speaker, what was also lacking is that, we want the gross total revenue and fees. In the past in 2018, I tried to ask a question to the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife to tell us how much they get from Tsavo East and Tsavo West National Parks and the CS brought some rather funny answers. He said that they collect Kshs50 million from Tsavo East and Tsavo West paid as land rates. The question that I asked is; what about the Pay as You Earn (PAYE) for the employees who are employed to work in the hotels and the people who are working as game rangers, waders, game scouts and so on? All that money should come into the gross total revenue or add up to the gross total revenue and fees collected within the protected area. What about the gate fees? The CS could not give us that data then. Now we are saying we need to get all that data and determine the 5 per cent of the gross revenue and fees so that we can determine how much 5 per cent should go to the communities living around the protected area. Madam Temporary Speaker, we are saying if you use Kshs10 billion because we are supposed to raise that and we do not raise Kshs10 billion from the collections - we raise only Kshs8 billion and borrow Kshs2 billion from the conservation partners across the world - the communities are supposed to get like Kshs500 million. Why do we not borrow Kshs2.5 billion so that we make sure we fulfill all these clauses and the requirements of this Bill? The Seventh Sub-section that I seek to amend is the Third Schedule in the principle Act No.47 of 2013. If you look at Schedule 3, it talks about wildlife species in respect of which compensation must be paid. They are listed as elephant, lion, leopards, rhinos, hyena et cetera . We also have poisonous snakes. Madam Temporary Speaker, what happened in the Omnibus Amendment Bill to the Wildlife Management Act of 2013? In 2019, the National Assembly removed some of"
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