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    "id": 1012481,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1012481/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Narok North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard ole Kenta",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Moitalel ole Kenta",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. In fact, this is a very serious issue especially in places like Narok where we have the Lolgorain gold mines. In the last Parliament, I was lucky enough to be part of the Committee that formulated the Mining Act and all these things were provided for. Parliament was actually informed that there are a lot of minerals found in Kenya but, unfortunately, whenever we put money into the mapping out of these areas, somehow, these efforts are always frustrated such that the Government could not map out these areas. What has happened is that, a lot of these minerals are actually smuggled out of Kenya through porous borders like the Tanzanian border and such places. Unless this Parliament ensures that money is put into mapping out these areas, I can assure this House that people are minting billions at the expense of the Kenyan people. So, this is something- as you said Hon. Speaker- that should be seriously looked into because if we do not, nobody will ever do it outside this Parliament because there are so many strong and powerful beneficiaries. For example, in Narok, I understand that there are very strange Chinese people found along the border of Kenya and Tanzania who are doing a lot of mining but no one in Kenya minds about it. It is something, as you said, that this Parliament should look into to."
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