Ledama Olekina

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• 8 Nov 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Petition by my good friend, Sen. Seneta, and to congratulate her for defending the rights of the people of Kajiado County. Recently, Sen. Seneta brought an issue that had to do with the farmers of Kajiado. Today, we are here dealing with something which has been in the news for quite some time now. That is, the issue of the mistreatment of the workers of Nol-Turesh Loitoktok Water and Sanitation Company. Kenyans should know that the issue of Nol-Turesh Loitoktok Water and Sanitation Company is something that cuts across three ... view
• 8 Nov 2018 in Senate: of Public Prosecutions (DPP) investigates the former Managing Director so as to have him and others held accountable if any funds were misappropriated during his tenure and which led to people not being paid their salaries and Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) not receiving its dues. I know that the Governor of Kajiado County appointed the former Managing Director of Kenya Airways to be the head of Nol-Turesh Loitoktok Water and Sanitation Company. Mr. Titus Naikuni is a good man. He has worked well though I know some people will say that there are issues which need to be addressed. However, ... view
• 8 Nov 2018 in Senate: hank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to support this Motion by Sen. Mwaruma, which calls for compensation of victims of human-wildlife conflict. From the outset, I congratulate Sen. Mwaruma for thinking about something that has bothered most of us. When I was growing up in Olombogishi every single day we used to have human- wildlife conflict. In most cases, it was as a result of the increased population of our people. Most of our people were encroaching into the territories which were mostly reserved for wildlife. By so doing, a lot of this wildlife would encroach ... view
• 8 Nov 2018 in Senate: However, that alone should not negate the importance of people. There is a good organisation called Maasai Conservation Trust, which has leased a lot of land in Kajiado, one of which is Kuku Group Ranch. They realised that there was a huge conflict between the Maasai and the lions because every time the lions attacked the Maasai cows, the Maasai would go out there and kill them. What did they do? They came out with a surcharge of US$101a night for any guests that visit their camps. They would collect this money, put it in a kitty and use it ... view
• 8 Nov 2018 in Senate: When you live in other countries and fly into, for instance, Logan Airport in the Unites States of America (USA), when you rent a car as a tourist, there is a surcharge where you a charged a certain amount for, let us say, a conventional centre. Why can we not be creative and come up with a system where we will always have this fund so that we can stop people from suffering? view
• 8 Nov 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, this is very sad. The statistics that Sen. Mwaruma gave here are really shocking. When you lose a life, think about how much that life can contribute to this economy. When you lose 16 people, think about how much negative impact it will have on their families. When an animal kills a bread-earner of the family you have not only affected that one person, but a whole generation because things will change. view
• 8 Nov 2018 in Senate: This issue is a big threat and it is about time that this Government looks into it. I keep on saying that the biggest mistake we made in this House is to do away with the Committee on Implementation. This is the kind of Motion the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, working with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), hotel owners and people who benefit from tourism should focus on. This should be to the extent that touching an animal is literally a security issue in this country. They all have to come together, take these statistics and find a way ... view
• 8 Nov 2018 in Senate: When we talk about the expansion of population into these areas where there is wildlife, I remember Sen. Mwaruma talking about the communities that live next to the park. During the dry season, animals are allowed to graze in the park albeit illegally. During that time, there is a lot of human-wildlife conflict. Instead of us burning the grass in our national parks, it is about time that the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife should work with county governments to develop a system whereby the county governments can harvest the grass. view
• 8 Nov 2018 in Senate: In most cases, like in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, where we have the eighth wonder of the world and the great wildebeest migration, wildlife migrates because of the level of grass in the park. Sometimes the grass is too long making it difficult, unsafe and dangerous for other species to eat. Most of these conservancies, the best they can do is to decide that instead of them burning the grass to allow new grass to grow, they could harvest this grass and store it. Instead of allowing domestic animals to graze in the parks, the grass can be sold ... view
• 8 Nov 2018 in Senate: We ought to think about solutions that we can put in place to support this. Another solution that can help avert the issue of human-wildlife conflict is to review our land use policy. It is wrong when in Sikinani, for instance, where on a monthly basis you hear that someone has been killed. On a daily basis you hear that wild animals have been killed by crossing an electric fence. We need to develop a huge wildlife corridor, sort of a no man‟s land, where there is no development allowed in that area. This is so that when these wild ... view