Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1093965,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1093965/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 94,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13156,
        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
        "slug": "mutula-kilonzo-jnr"
    },
    "content": "you to one time to ask the good Senator to take you to this place. She wears some of that jewelry. It is very nice looking. It will surprise you that the people where these minerals come from are possibly the poorest in the country. The people mining in Kishushe today are the billionaires of this country. Some of them are the ones now promoting something I do not even want to mention here about economics that do not make sense, yet they are billionaires from these natural resources. I wish they would donate some of their mines. If the people of Taita Taveta County, together with the county government were to benefit even 10 per cent from the minerals that are coming from Taita Taveta County, you would not have poverty there. They are my neighbours. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether you have travelled. Perhaps you should send us for as a Committee there. Taita Taveta County has possibly the most expensive lodges in the country. There are people whose private lodges have elephants. Sen. Cheruiyot used to blame my late father for keeping lions. There are people who have elephants in their lodges. I mean elephants are running around in your ranch in Taita Taveta. Taita Taveta is beautiful but poor because the regulations that exists to ensure that conservancies share this money with citizens are not there. People are paying top dollar to stay in tents in Taita, and to go to a place that Sen. Olekina loves called the Angama Mara. They pay Kshs100,00-200,000 a night just to sleep next to a river where you will hear crocodiles and hippopotamus having a good time at night, yet people are poor. I had spoken to Sen. Olekina about this. The reason why half his community in Tanzania has built a whole business empire in Arusha is because the Serengeti side of the Mara has a business arrangement with the community. The sort of complaints that Sen. Olekina complains about Maasai Mara would have been resolved if his county shared the revenue that they are collecting with the people of Narok. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we had a Petition in this Senate about Maasai Mara. I was shocked. These people are sitting on billions. They are paid in dollars. In fact, a time will come where Narok will not need the national Government because of the money that they are collecting from Maasai Mara alone. They actually do not. I hope that this gentleman is elected the Governor, because even 10 per cent of the United States Dollars (USD) 5 billion that is in their account will make sure that there is no child in Narok--- Those girls that Sen. Olekina is educating will be educated through the fund that is collected from Maasai Mara, the Sovereign Fund that Sen. Wamatangi was talking about. How do you collect a sovereign fund if the billionaires are taking everything? Sen. Mwaruma has proposed the Wildlife Conservation and Management (Amendment) Bill about the regulations. In 2013, the President signed the regulations that require all the people in Isiolo, Marsabit, Makueni, Taita Taveta, and Nairobi to get a small portion of the amount collected from the parks. Tsavo East and West National Parks used to give 10 per cent of their collections to both Taita Taveta and Makueni counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support this because our revenue, for purposes of counties, are shrinking. We have not discussed a Supreme Court ruling that bars counties from"
}