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    "id": 1357568,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Tourism and Wildlife",
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    "content": "Nianze na swali la Mheshimiwa Mungatana kutoka kwa ndugu zetu wa Tana River kuhusu shida ambayo imetokea kule kwa sababu ya upungufu wa wasimamizi wa wanyama pori. Ningependa kumwambia kwamba, shida ambayo tumekuwa nayo ni upungufu wa watu wa kutosha. Hivi sasa Rais wetu ametupatia ruhusa ya kuweza kuwaajiri watu wapya; karibu 1,500 ambao ni wasimamizi wa wanyama pori. Kwa hivyo, tutaanza kuwaajiri hivi karibuni. Tutatangaza na wengi tutawatoa kule kwa National Youth Service ndipo waweze kuwa ukiitana, wako hapo na wanaweza kukuhudumia kwa njia ambayo inafaa. Tukipata hela zaidi, tunaweza kuwaongeza wengine. Ningependa pia kukuarifu ya kwamba, kuna shida tofauti katika upande wa Tana River kwa sababu ya ule uhusiano ama kuishi karibu na wanyama na pia katika zile shida ambazo zimewakumba, na sio mamba pekee yake. Hata hivyo, tayari katika muhula ambao umepita na ambao unaendelea, tumelipa Kshs77 milioni kwa wale ambao wameathiriwa katika Kaunti ya Tana River. Moving on to the second question about harassment of tourists and visitors at Jomo Kenya International Airport (JKIA), it is a real concern that I have spoken about. I would like to inform this House that the former Senator, the CS for Roads and Transport, held a very important meeting with his team. He has initiated procedures and changes that will be undertaken to make sure that the airport is operating properly in many ways, from its physical perspective to the way the operations run, and to the ways the visitors are received. We are working closely together as one team of Government under the Kenya Kwanza Government. We are going to ensure that this does not happen. Definitely, when people feel harassed, there is a problem. I was telling the Commissioner General of Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), that he always has to look at the bigger picture. Most of us when we were growing up, we were given the duty of running after the chicken so that we could capture the chicken whenever we had a visitor, so that it could be slaughtered. One could run all over and try to capture the chicken. Nonetheless, at times we saw what our fathers did. Instead of running after the chicken, they could just use maize. By dropping a seed of maize, one after the other and the chicken would peck it and get closer and then it could be captured. You do not calculate the cost of the chicken because of the cost of the maize. If you concentrate on the maize seeds, you lose the bigger chicken. I was trying to tell them that at times you may want people to be charged for this and that, but let us look at the bigger picture. Furthermore, I realized that they have been harassing people who do not need to be harassed. I was there just the other day as I was travelling. I saw them stop a lady who just had her two old phones in her bag and they made her open her bag. What is the deal about having two or three phones? Are you not allowed to have two or three phones? It is different if you are carrying a package of phone to sell as you need to pay duty. If you are carrying your own individual phones and they can tell they are not in a package, why do you even need to stop the person to verify that? There is a lot of education that needs to go to our people that we are working together to be able to raise enough revenue. Nonetheless, work is being implemented and the future is bright. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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