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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Peninah Malonza",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Tourism, Wildlife and Heritage",
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    "content": "we use our own leaders to market this country as a tourist destination. We have categories from the President to all the elected leaders, including you here. We will be working on this strategy. Finally, we are partnering with media houses locally and abroad. We have already partnered with Chinese media houses, and we have begun to harness tourists out of 1.4 billion population of China. So, we may get somewhere. Hon. Speaker, the next question is why families of people who have died from wildlife attacks in Masimba area have not been compensated. As Members heard me say earlier on, we are already compensating claims dating from 2014. There are claims amounting to Ksh326 million, which we have cleared. We are now clearing claims from 2014 to 2018. We have also given favour to claims on death and extended them to 2019 with the Ksh959 million that we had, which we dispensed yesterday and today. We are also planning to continue compensating victims of human-wildlife conflict with the Ksh1.1 billion that is already in the current financial year’s budget. Finally, we are piloting the whole agenda of insurance because we know the pain that people go through as they wait for more than 10 years to be compensated. We are piloting to see whether we can get insurance to pay victims of human-wildlife conflict immediately. Further, on the the compensation agenda, we have been using bank accounts. We are trying to see whether we can pay small claims via M-Pesa directly to the beneficiaries. Hon. Speaker, the next question is how Ushanga is utilised. We have piloted this programme with nine counties. We are in the process of expanding the programme to include other counties in tiers because of funding challenges. How is it managed? It is still under the State Department of Culture. Since Ushanga is not a Semi-Autonomous-Government Agency, it is being managed as a directorate under the State Department of Culture. Of course, we are in the process of working towards making it a Semi-Autonomous Government Agency. The next question is about mushrooming of conservancies across the country and what their roles are. Conservancies are an important player in conservation. They provide extra space for wildlife, especially within wildlife migration corridors and dispersal areas. They provide what we call “buffer zones” to national parks and game reserves. Security is also regulated and supported by adjacent national parks wardens. They are registered under the Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association (KWCA), which works closely with Kenya Wildlife Services and the Ministry. Therefore, they are helping us a lot. I know that most of the conservancies in the country are run by white people. For upcoming conservancies, we are encouraging local communities to donate their land for this purpose and be front-runners or owners of the conservancies. Hon. Speaker, we are developing the Turkana Science Park. It will be a big strategic project to position the Turkana region for tourism. As the Member rightly said, Turkana is the cradle of mankind. The Turkana Boy is safely guarded at the National Museums of Kenya because he is a national heritage site. He has not been taken away. When we establish the Turkana Science Park, we will have a replica of the Turkana Boy as is the practice internationally and within the country. On the Isiolo, Kithima and Kirikwe compensations, as I have just said, we are currently compensating claims from 2014 going backwards. We are clearing all of them. We are compensating normal claims from 2014 to 2018. However, we are extending death claims to 2019. Therefore, I will be glad to give details of claims from Meru County that are currently being paid out. We have a budget of Ksh1.1 billion this year to settle the remaining claims. Going forward, we are re-looking into insurance so that we can eradicate the pain of waiting for claim pay-outs. Meru County will get Ksh50,687,990.60. On the security menace posed by street children in Mombasa, we are working with the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection as that issue is squarely domiciled under that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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