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    "id": 1005367,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support the Statement by Cherargei. I want to congratulate Sen. Cherargei for coming up with this Statement. It has come out clearly on the Floor of this House that we have resources. Some resources are man-made and some are just a natural gift from God. Madam Deputy Speaker, in a situation where resources are a gift from God, it is unfortunate that if that resource is found in your land, people will come from nowhere and take the resources. Sometimes, the land owners end up being very poor, helpless and languish in poverty, yet others come to exploit resources that are on their land. Land is a factor of production. Being a factor of production, and Kenyans have resources on their land and they are natural, then they should not languish in poverty. The issue that Sen. Cherargei has brought here is not new in this Senate. This is because it has happened in Kakamega County, where you find gold mining has been going on 1930s. Madam Deputy Speaker, who benefit from this mining? The locals do not benefit. You will find that the level of poverty is still very high in Kakamega County. It is also unfortunate that Sen. Cherargei has also brought out the issue of the land owners of the"
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