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    "id": 73170,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/73170/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nanok",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 57,
        "legal_name": "Josephat Koli Nanok",
        "slug": "josephat-nanok"
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    "content": "Lastly, I was asked to indicate how much revenue KWS has been collecting from the different lease agreements. We have to first of all note that the mandate of KWS is protection of our wildlife resources. To do this, KWS depends on internally generated revenue which includes park entry fees, rental of accommodation facilities and leases that are given out to different companies. Other sources are money that the KWS gets from the Treasury and different donors. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the financial year 2009/2010, the internally generated revenues amounted to Kshs3.1 billion of which 88 per cent which is Kshs2.7 billion was attributed to park entry fees. Accommodation facilities contributed Kshs98.7 million, whereas leases among other sources, contributed 8 per cent of the total revenue collected, which is about Kshs301.3 million. I would also like to table a document indicating the amounts collected for different lease agreements. Most of the lease agreements that the KWS has entered into are particularly for improving tourism in the different parks, game reserves and in some of the plots they hold on behalf of the public. The KWS has entered into 78 lease agreements with different companies. The lease periods for those agreements vary from six years to 50 years. They have specific time lines when they should be lapsing. All of them are on lodges in the parks."
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