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    "speaker_name": "Maara, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kareke Mbiuki",
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    "content": " Thank you so much, Hon. Speaker. I would like to appreciate all the sentiments that have been raised by the Members. Indeed, they are extremely valid. Hon. Speaker, it is good to note that during the morning session, we were with the Member of Parliament for Tiaty, the Hon. William Kamket. We had a very good conversation with the State Department for Wildlife that is headed by the Cabinet Secretary. I want us, as Members, to appreciate the initiative that has been taken by the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Heritage towards the recruitment of rangers. The last time KWS recruited was in 2015. To date, there is dire need for more rangers and other personnel for KWS. As I had indicated earlier, KWS is faced with serious financial constraints. Due to the budgetary constraints, they could not afford to go to the sub-county level. We need to appreciate the number of recruits that are being recruited. We are talking of 1,000 recruits, as compared to Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) or Kenya Police Service who normally recruit more than 10,000. On average, we expect each constituency to recruit three rangers. You can imagine the kind of logistics of doing this recruitment at the sub-county level. It is because of the same that the Ministry decided they will do recruitment at the county level. Even at the county level, like if at all they have gone to Nyayo Stadium, each and every constituency will do their own independent recruitment, but at the centralised level. I want to give a commitment that immediately after the recruitment is over, I am going to table in this House the list of all the recruits who have been recruited across the entire country, in all the 290 constituencies. Equally, I want to give a commitment that each and every constituency will get its own fair share of recruits. Basically, Members were so much concerned on what will go to each and every sub- county or each and every constituency. This is a learning lesson. I am aware that Kenya Prisons Service, Kenya Police Service and KDF will be recruiting in the near future. Let them first and foremost table the distribution per each and every sub-county before the time of recruitment. We have also learnt that the Ministry has written to the National Treasury because those 1,000 rangers is a stop-gap measure. Once we get further funding through the Supplementary Budget II, then the demand for the rangers’ establishment requirement - that is almost 7,000 - will be easy. I want to give an undertaking during the next recruitment, which is scheduled for either this financial year or the next financial year, that the recruitment will be done at the sub-county levels. With those many remarks, Hon. Speaker, I beg to submit. I thank you."
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