Josephat Nanok

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let appointments be done transparently. Let procedures for appointments be put in place. You may recall the recent recruitment of game rangers by the Kenya Wildlife Service which was so transparent. The complaints that came from Kenyans were very few. So, we would like all the other organs of Government, including the Office of the President and the Prime Minister’s office to carry out political appointments transparently. They should put procedures in place so that we can avoid this political drama. You also have to realize that during the implementation of the Constitution, one of the ... view
• 8 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, you may recall on 18th January, 2011 the Member for Isiolo South, hon. Bahari sought for a Ministerial Statement from my Ministry wanting us to indicate how the recruitment of rangers by Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) was conducted and as to whether resulting from the methodology and the formula used, imbalances of marginalization or discrimination will not arise. view
• 8 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: The Kenya Wildlife Service is a State corporation under my Ministry whose mandate is to conserve, manage wildlife and habitat throughout the country on behalf of the State. It oversees the management of 27 terrestrial and marine parks and 34 terrestrial and game reserves. Efficient and effective management of the 61 terrestrial marine and game reserves requires adequate number of game rangers amongst the human resources and logistical requirements. view
• 8 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: The Kenya Wildlife Service has been experiencing an acute shortage of rangers in recent years, which has recently placed a huge operational physical burden on its current limited ranger workforce. The deficit is mainly attributed to the fact that the KWS had not undertaken recruitment of rangers for the past five years due to budgetary constraints. A recent Government directive that required the service rangers to protect the Mau Forest Complex had in addition necessitated withdrawal of rangers from other operational areas. This led to further shortfall in the areas from which rangers had been withdrawn. The current ranger strength ... view
• 8 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: In addition, increasing new challenges and new responsibilities which include protection of water catchment areas have necessitated recruitment of additional rangers. Thus the force is currently understaffed by about 47 per cent. To undertake the exercise in a prudent manner, the KWS undertook the recruitment in all the 47 counties in the Republic of Kenya in which 500 rangers were finally recruited. It would not have been economically viable for the recruitment to have been undertaken from all the country’s 297 districts bearing in mind the small number of rangers that were to be recruited. Thus, recruitment at county level ... view
• 8 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: The county recruitment option was adopted in light of the new constitutional dispensation which sets out the 47 counties as the units into which the country is administratively divided. view
• 8 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: The recruitment process also ensured that candidates were accommodated from all the 287 districts in the Republic of Kenya among the 500 rangers. It is only those districts that did not have qualified applicants as set out in the minimum qualification requirements that missed out on the final selection. It is indeed noteworthy that this is the first recruitment that has been undertaken under the new Constitution and which was carried out in a most transparent and fair manner. Equity and fairness in the recruitment exercise as well as ensuring that the complement of recruits represented the face of the ... view
• 8 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: A total of 14 counties with national parks and human wildlife hotspots were awarded 13 recruits each, while 21 counties with national reserves were awarded ten slots each and 12 counties without national parks and national reserves were awarded nine slots each. This was the criteria used to allocate the 500 vacancies for rangers in the Service to the 47 counties of Kenya. view
• 8 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: The names of the 500 successful ranger recruits were published in the Daily view
• 8 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: and The Standard newspapers on 3rd February 2011 and the recruits are scheduled to report to the KWS Field Training School, Manyani between 5th February and 9th February 2011 for appropriate training prior to deployment in the Service. view