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    "id": 1012502,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also inject my voice to this very important issue. The pertinent questions that we should ask ourselves, and Hon. Duale had actually asked, is that: Why are the people who are around these mining areas the poorest in this country, and if really it is not very productive and profitable business, why are the companies still in the country and exploring? The other question is that: Is it that we do not have the capacity or our mineralogists have decided to collude with people outside the country so that they pretend not to be having the capacity hence our gold is taken out of the country, sold elsewhere and the result come as if there was no gold in whatever they had collected? Hon. Speaker, you have said that they have been shipping out the rare-earth minerals with many ships, but when the report comes, they say: “No, there was nothing. So, you have gotten nothing from it.” Yet contrary to that, probably, they have made millions and billions of monies out of it. It is time that this House considers setting aside that fund for mapping and making sure that our people benefit from whatever that come out of the rare-earth minerals. We can also see in the countries like Ghana, wherever there is a gold mine, the population there is very rich as well as in Qatar. However, that is opposite in this country. Therefore, there must be a real problem. As Hon. Kenta has said, in a place called Goria in Narok, there are a lot of mining activities going on, but the people around there are very poor. He has said, there werw funny looking Chinese around there. I have never heard of the ones who look funny and the ones who look like Chinese, but they are there nonetheless. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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