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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker for the opportunity. We share a border with Taita Taveta County and that means that we also share the same problems. The elephants that move around aimlessly and freely from Tsavo National Park affect our people in a similar manner. The problem that the people of Taita Taveta County are facing are not any different from what we face. Unfortunately, the people of Taita Taveta have the best tented camps, lodges and tourists who spend a lot of money there yet compensating them becomes very difficult. Allow me to highlight the principle. I have a letter from the Cabinet Secretary (CS) that suggests that the parks are contributing up to 9 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of this country. My own impression is that it could be more but nine per cent is still good enough. These animals are living amongst people but it becomes difficult to compensate those people when they are injured by wildlife. There was a Petition in 2014 on the collections by Maasai Mara that came to the Committee on Finance and Budget. Masai Mara collects money in the tune of billions in dollars which forms part and parcel of their own source revenue. I still wonder about CS, Najib Balala. It is only the President who understands him. I do not understand him at all. When ten rhinos died in Tsavo National Park, he said that he is only responsible to the President. In other jurisdictions, he should have been fired on the spot. When a person suggests that you should have a private park, what are they talking about? Does he live in this country? Parks are in the counties. If we were to ask what Taita Taveta County should do with Tsavo National Park, then that park should go to Taita Taveta County, so that they collect the money he does not want to collect. The same case should happen to Maasai Mara, Samburu, Isiolo or Marsabit where we have beautiful parks."
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