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    "id": 1091193,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1091193/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ali",
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    "content": "The other issue is that when locals do small scale mining here and there, the national Government should assist, but it does not. Like Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve said, the small miners in Homa Bay, Migori, Kakamega and many counties of this country, are exploited by middlemen and brokers. They get one to five grammes and some even a kilogramme, but they do not get the value of what they strive to mine. Many of them even die in those mine holes. It would be good if the national Government, through the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining, looked into the welfare of these small miners. Sen. Cheruiyot talked about how the Goldenberg Scandal happened. People were bringing gold from Ethiopia and Congo, many people were exploited and a scandal happened. If we have a central organization to help our small gold diggers from Pokot and every part of this country, then something could come out of it. Unfortunately, we just look at the multi-nationals out there who are out to just exploit everybody. We have been given examples of what happened in Kwale and Turkana counties. For a long time in Marsabit County, there have been wars between the locals and organisations which were generating wind power. Somebody just came from nowhere and decided to take 100 kilometre squares of your land without any compensation. The power comes all the way to Suswa and the people living around that area do not have power. That is unfair and it is not right. When people went to court and complained about this matter, everything was thrown out because these are people who could be bulldozed. In certain areas, the local leadership is corrupted and, therefore, the small miners cannot get anything. You and everybody in the world has heard about pirates in Somalia. It came as a result of industrial mining, in form of fishing. Trawlers from all over the world come to explore their Ocean. They were then forces to become pirates and chase exploiters away. What happened next is that the big powers have come to those areas and the big trawlers are there exploiting everything. The locals are not benefiting. It brought about pirates who would create many problems and cause a mess in the Indian Ocean."
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