{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=139675","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=139673","results":[{"id":1413151,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1413151/?format=json","text_counter":207,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kilgoris, KANU","speaker_title":"Hon. Julius Sunkuli","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to thank the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Wildlife and Tourism for the very eloquent Statement on KWS recruitment. Hon. Speaker, I heard him say…."},{"id":1413152,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1413152/?format=json","text_counter":208,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Hon. Kareke Mbiuki and Hon. Owen Baya consulted loudly)"},{"id":1413153,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1413153/?format=json","text_counter":209,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kilgoris, KANU","speaker_title":"Hon. Julius Sunkuli","speaker":null,"content":"They are engaging the Hon. Chairman too much. I heard him say that certain counties which border national parks and game reserves will get affirmative action, which is a very good thing. I just want to urge the Hon. Chairman that I hope that is not lip service to those particular counties. The people of Narok County have looked after wildlife so much and they treasure that particular responsibility of being employed by KWS. We, therefore, hope that that statement will be adhered to. Of course, it is a pity that people from Kilgoris will be asked to go to Ole Ntimama Stadium, which is very far away. They have to come through Kisii and Bomet in order to get back to their Narok Headquarters. It would have been much easier for KWS to wait for funds to recruit people on site. That being the case, we hope that this will be a transparent exercise and we can get to know the report of how affirmative action was conducted."},{"id":1413154,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1413154/?format=json","text_counter":210,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. Baya, you are the last person to contribute on this. Hon. David Kangogo has asked about Marakwet and I hope it covers you."},{"id":1413155,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1413155/?format=json","text_counter":211,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kilifi North, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Owen Baya","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Speaker, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity. What we need to do, especially in the recruitment of people to the armed forces, is to create greater accountability such that every Kenyan has an equal opportunity to be recruited into the forces. Hon. Speaker, what happens is that the recruitment officers will come to Kilifi and leave at the end of the day. We will not know who has qualified and who has not. At the end of the day when they do the report, there is nobody from Kilifi. Hon. Speaker, what we need at the end of the recruitment exercise, just like we do in elections, is the list of those that have been selected to be pasted on the wall of an office. This is for everybody to know that in this village or sub-county, so and so were taken from that rigorous competition. Just imagine those people come, run and do all those kinds of things. At the end of the day, you know that you have qualified. But you are taken to a chamber and you are told you cannot not be taken because you failed a urine test. Yet you did a urine test the previous day which showed that you are clean. Then on that particular day you are told that if 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"},{"id":1413156,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1413156/?format=json","text_counter":212,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kilifi North, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Owen Baya","speaker":null,"content":"you run for a long time, your urine changes colour. On that aspect, a person from Kilifi is left out. They probably had a list already somewhere else."},{"id":1413157,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1413157/?format=json","text_counter":213,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kilifi North, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Owen Baya","speaker":null,"content":"We, as Members of Parliament, must demand greater accountability in the recruitment of armed forces. We want to know how many slots have been allocated for Kilifi and how many Kilifians have been recruited. We will then rest easy knowing that no corruption or malpractices have been involved. The Committee please, as Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) goes on with this, we want greater accountability on the numbers of the people recruited. We want to know how many will be recruited beforehand and we want to know how many have been recruited. That is the best way to bring accountability. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."},{"id":1413158,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1413158/?format=json","text_counter":214,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. Kareke Mbiuki. I think most of the concerns are the same."},{"id":1413159,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1413159/?format=json","text_counter":215,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Maara, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kareke Mbiuki","speaker":null,"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."},{"id":1413160,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1413160/?format=json","text_counter":216,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Next Order. You can now proceed in the manner I directed."}]}