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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me talk about the tourism sector. The Ministry of Tourism is at times the first or second foreign exchange earner in this country. I would like to be taken very kindly on this because tourists come to see wildlife. So, without wildlife there are no tourists. Wildlife do not only live in protected areas. In fact, 80 per cent of wildlife in this country live in non-protected areas which are either community or private land. Right now, we have a national disaster in the form of drought. Eighty per cent of the wildlife in this country has been living in our community or private land. The communities living near the parks move inside the parks in search of pasture and water. But the relationship between the community and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) rangers is not friendly. So, I would like to ask the three Ministries--- We are now seeing the effects of splitting of some of these Ministries that should have been together as one Ministry. The Minister for Tourism takes tourists to the parks to see wildlife. If the Ministry of Tourism and the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife were in one Ministry, a good relationship could have existed. So, I would kindly ask the Minister for Forestry and Wildlife to consider the pastoral communities to have access to some parts of the national park where there is pasture and water to graze their livestock. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are some areas in this country where there is no single animal and they lead a better life than those with wildlife in their areas. People living with wildlife get maimed, killed and their livestock gets killed. If there is no good relationship between the livestock keepers and the wildlife community, we may very soon not have the Ministry of Tourism. We would like to see some areas being accessible. I gave an example of Tsavo West National Park. This park is 9,000 square kilometres and Oloitokitok District is 6,000 square kilometres. Tsavo West National Park is one and a half times bigger than Oloitokitok District. Tsavo West and Tsavo East combined is 22,000 square kilometres and tourists rarely utilize even 1,000 square kilometres of those parks. This is a low season in the tourism sector and there are some areas which have pasture and water in some parts of the park. I kindly ask the Minister for Forestry and Wildlife to allow pastoralists to access some parts of the national park and save some of their animals."
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