What he's saying isn't fitting with what we know of a properly regulated sport-safari industry.

However it's quite possible that the majority of the government-related fees and charges are going directly into general revenue, rather than being distrubuted to the locals.

Throw in a tourist outfit which proposes a more direct return to the locals (or at least, the local chief) and you have incentive for some politics-via-media.

Just speculating, but such thimngs are not unknown in Africa.