{"id":74093,"date":"2024-08-04T08:04:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T08:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/04\/govt-counties-plan-revenue-sharing-formula-for-wildlife-parks\/"},"modified":"2024-08-04T08:04:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T08:04:42","slug":"govt-counties-plan-revenue-sharing-formula-for-wildlife-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/govt-counties-plan-revenue-sharing-formula-for-wildlife-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt, counties plan revenue-sharing formula for wildlife parks"},"content":{"rendered":"

NYERI, Kenya, Aug 4 \u2013 The national and county governments are working on a proposal to develop a well-defined formula for sharing revenue generated from national parks.
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Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Saturday said that as the chairperson of the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC), he is facilitating the talks between the two levels of government to ensure consensus.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an ongoing conversation. I chair IBEC and I am the fulcrum between the national and county governments. I will facilitate that conversation between the national and county Governments but the cost of maintaining the parks is very expensive. The national government sometimes supplements the income that the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) collects,\u201d he said at the Aberdare National Park after gracing the reopening of Treetops Lodge.<\/p>\n

Accompanied by the British High Commissioner to Kenya Neil Wigan and other guests, the DP also had a game drive in the park.<\/p>\n

He was responding to a proposal by Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga that the County Government of Nyeri deserve a share of revenue generated by KWS at the Aberdare National Park.<\/p>\n

Governor Kahiga had opined that the KWS should be ceding a percentage of revenue generated from Aberdare National Park to Nyeri County Government.<\/p>\n

He based his opinion on Narok County Government, which gets a share of revenue collected from Maasai Mara game reserve.<\/p>\n

But DP Gachagua said, \u201cNarok is different because since time immemorial Maasai Mara was run by Narok County County Council and when Devolution system came in 2013 the system that was there continued\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaasai Mara is a different ballgame because of the number of visitors and its place in the world. But that is a conversation the national and county governments should continue having,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

On sharing of revenue between Kajiado County and Amboseli National Park, the DP said the talks are ongoing as directed by President William Ruto last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a presidential pronouncement as far as Amboseli is concerned. Furtherance to President\u2019s directive, teams were set up between the Ministry of Tourism and Kajiado County Government. It is ongoing and is a complex matter because of the figures involved. The issue that comes up is that are the county governments wiling -in case there are shortfalls- to also share liabilities to the national government?\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

He explained that as much as the devolved governments are willing to share the revenue with KWS, in many parks the national government has to supplement KWS to keep the operations of parks going.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre the county governments willing, when there is a shortfall, to chip in. We do not just discuss the assets we also discuss liabilities. We haven\u2019t reached a conclusive decision but we want that conversation ongoing and my office is hosting that conversation,\u201d he said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NYERI, Kenya, Aug 4 \u2013 The national and county governments are working on a proposal to develop a well-defined formula for sharing revenue generated from national parks.Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on Saturday said that as the chairperson of the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC), he is facilitating the talks between the two levels of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}