KENYA WILDLIFE SERVICE (KWS) DECLARED TECHNICALLY INSOLVENT

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has accumulated Sh4.4 billion in losses that have left it technically insolvent, according to a newly-released report on the agency’s finances.

Auditor- General Edward Ouko says KWS, which is the primary State agency charged with wildlife conservation, reported a deficit of Sh680.5 million in the financial year ended June 2015, its latest audited period.

This came on the back of a Sh3.7 billion deficit that the agency had accumulated in the year to June 2014, pushing the total to Sh4.4 billion.

“During the year under review, the service recorded a deficit of Sh680.5 million…bringing accumulated deficit to Sh4.4 billion,” Mr Ouko says in a qualified audit report he submitted to Parliament last week.

Mr Ouko says the continued sustainability of the service is therefore dependent on regular government, creditors and/or development partners’ support.

“This scenario is untenable considering the vital importance of wildlife conservation for the present and future generations as envisioned in the Constitution of Kenya,” Mr Ouko says in the audit report dated June 16, 2016.

The KWS has continued to record deficits that mainly arise from compensation claims for victims of wildlife attacks as well as destruction of property by wild animals.
KWS blames the huge compensation claims on Parliament’s decision to amend the Wildlife Management and Conservation Act 2013 that left the taxpayer with a Sh4.83 billion bill by end of June 2016.

The law requires KWS to pay a minimum Sh5 million compensation for every life lost. The KWS wants Parliament to review the compensation rates to levels the agency can afford to pay from own revenues.

The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources says the compensation claims for death and injury alone stood at Sh2.3 billion by June 2016.

Michael Kipkeu, senior assistant director of community wildlife service at the KWS, last year told the National Assembly’s Environment and Natural Resources committee that the bulk of the compensation bill arose from deaths as a result of snake bites.
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This is the first complete audit this Ouko guy has given. The other nonsense ati ‘cannot be accounted for’ he usually gives is BS.

All government organizations are technically insolvent: Mumias, Nzoia sugar, kws, KBC, etc

lynch brigade over to you

na si watoe nyoka kwa list of wild animals

That amount of money can be used to build and equip dispensaries in those affected areas to offer immediate treatment whenever such accidents happen. Also the elite local people can be given anti-venom to adminster immidiately. Just a thought i don’t know much about this things

the payments for loss of life/ wildlife damage are an excuse rather than the reason.

Insurance hufanya kazi vipi?

Wakuwe wanauza hizo pembe they find wawache kujifanya holier than thou just like ukahaba haezi isha

Si wakate tu 1/8 plots huko kwa Park wa subcontract Gakuyo Real Estate auze.

poachers wanajaribu ku manipulate system wauziwe Tusks . arap singh .

remove the parks from populated areas. put all the animals in tsavo

Look at this genius !!!:confused::confused:

Excuses galore

This is no solution, either.

Unless they wanna antagonize local communities, that is.

What came first, the animals or the people?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRa8l4G0DHY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCKvJVmrmno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYja4_Y-R0w

KWS would be better served to set aside funding to do a multi-pronged strategy to:

  1. Purchase or manufacture snake repellants and distribute them to local communities
  2. Boost the local production of anti-venin and distribute the same to local communities, educate locals (the challenge may be preservation) http://reut.rs/1Fn4vbZ
  3. Look into a natural approach, such as introducing kingsnakes, mongoose or honey badgers (the risk is that when the menace is eradicated the control animals may turn to prey on domestic animals).
  4. Consider dispatching personnel to Vietnam or Cambodia to see how these nations manage the menace, alternatively look into an exchange program where locals in those nations can come to Kenya to hunt (if permitted) and educate locals on the same http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2016/mekong-snake-hunters
  5. Employ talented locals who have expertise in dealing with snakes to train other locals and to demystify the reptiles (not advocating for this to be a food source)
    6 Look at turning the menace into profitability and employment (#5 above)

Thank you! Now we’re talking! Can’t believe we still get antivenin from India in this day and age. And the thing is damn expensive, a small 10ml vial currently going for around 8k!!

Best curated answer. Sadly, I can only give one like.

Kwanza hio kbc. Did a work for then early last year and till now no hope for payment

This is why the antivenin comes from India, now these would be worthy temporary workers in Kenya as trainers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_fFk53I3nE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxNd1bGmqg8