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    "content": "prepare rules and regulations which will be subject under the Constitution to come to this House for approval, that will determine the manner in which local content is determined, including, an appeal. We may have a situation where people will just start as soon as the law is passed; somebody walks to a five star hotel on the beach and says, I am the local content. What are my shares? The same way President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe was just saying, “my Minister, wewe chukua hilo shamba, fukuza huyo Mzungu mara moja.” That is what they did. You may remember the famous Africans Series by the late Prof. Ali Mazrui in 1983, 1984 and 1985. Immediately after Independence, Zimbabwe was the most food- reliant country in Africa. It was the most industrialized country in Africa South of Egypt and North of South Africa. Today, it is worse than Eritrea or Somalia. One time I met the Vice President of Zimbabwe. She amused me – President Mugabe has since sacked her. She is called Ms. Joyce Mujuru. She told me, we have now bank notes with so many zeros. We have been told one is called million, another, a billion, a trillion and a gagillion. She went on and on. She continued to say; “you can go with them but you cannot walk out of a supermarket with a loaf of bread”. That is how local content can run down a country. We must be very careful. The care we must exercise is the content in this Bill that will insulate this country. There are some things we cannot say on the Floor but at a quiet evening when we are enjoying a beer, I will tell you. Clause 19 states that the Cabinet Secretary shall, in consultation with the Committee and by notice in the Gazette, set the minimum local content to be applied by an operator engaging in any extractive activity undertaken under this Act. First, there is no point setting up a committee and then leaving the authority to the Cabinet Secretary. The Cabinet Secretary will, if you followed the tenure, be the one appointing all these people. There is no way he can call them to his office and give them his views and they resist. So, it will be the views of the Cabinet Secretary all the time. That is how to kill this child at birth. I suggest that the corporation that we set up will then sit – I discussed with Sen. Moi and Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale – I said, you know, you are now talking of the mining, the extractive industry and petroleum – the country will look very messy if after passing a Bill on petroleum, gas and mining and then you run and pass another Bill for local content on agriculture and floriculture, fishing, forestry. A composite law with every applicable situation is more important than a sectoral narrow based law so that now the rules and regulations they will pass will cover the fishing and coffee sector. Let me finish so that I leave it to you, mheshimiwa . How many minutes do I have?"
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