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    "id": 1091176,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ekal",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Malachy Charles Ekal Imana",
        "slug": "malachy-charles-ekal-imana"
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    "content": "think that a local resource should support the people of the particular locality and better their living conditions. Unfortunately, that does not happen. A lot of what I want to say has been said already by other hon. Members. Sen. (Dr.) Zani and Sen. Wamatangi have spoken a lot on what I wanted to say so I am going to speak about a special locality. Allow me to speak about a special county, Turkana County. You realize that this year, Turkana County was rated as the poorest county in the country. That is very unfortunate and unfair because that is one of the most endowed counties in the country. Unfortunately, the resources of Turkana County are poorly managed and usually go to others who do not come from that locality. Usually, such resources are exploited by others from other parts of the world and the locals are left in dire need. It is for those reasons that Turkana County is rated as one of the poorest counties. People mine gold in Turkana County. Oil has also been discovered and is being mined. Sand, rocks, charcoal, electricity and so many other things are also found in Turkana County. One may think that a country with so many riches should be featuring well and not being counted as one of the poorest. As I said earlier, the natural resources in Turkana County are poorly managed so they do not benefit the locals. I would like to cite the examples of roads that are being put up in Turkana County. There are some roads that are being built in Turkana County which are exploiting the locals. A lot of the natural resources are taken away in Turkana while the locals are left with nothing to show for the natural resources in their own county. That is a source of exploitation. The roads are allowing people from outside Turkana to come easily and exploit the locals. They build the roads, take a lot from the Government and go their own way. Madam Temporary Speaker, the other problem is that the locals are not considered in the jobs. Jobs such as those of putting up roads, digging out sand and gold should go to the locals. Unfortunately, a lot of the work is done by people from other counties leaving the locals sitting there. Unfortunately, the locals sometimes do not even see that their riches are being taken away from them. For example, when others are mining gold in their own counties, they do not even question that. They say that is something that people from outside or foreigners usually do. For instance, the people in Turkana will tell you that their work is to only look after their animals so they let that kind of exploitation go on. They are not even aware of the exploitation. It behooves the County Government of Turkana to manage those resources for the locals and make sure that the lives of the locals are changed. The exploitation of gold, sand or even holes that are being dug to prepare putting up of roads, that kind of work changes the environment. A hill has to be demolished to create marram or some holes are dug to harvest sand but such holes are never filled. The holes are left uncovered and whenever it rains, they become pools full of water. Little children are by nature attracted to pools of water because they want to go there and swim. When the kids go to such dams to swim, they usually perish. Poor mothers are left mourning their lost children but there is nothing that can be done. Nobody is held responsible after such an accident occurs; not even those who dug such holes. I expect that when this Bill comes to fruition, there is going to be a situation where when you make such an environmental change by digging such a big hole to"
}