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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ali",
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    "content": "lot of magendo that is going on. A lot of funny things come from the other side. One day you are told that they have closed the border. Who is benefiting? Why do you not open the border, put your border post there and get money? This is the money that can help the CRA and other organizations to expand. However, you do not collect enough revenue and you want close things just for the sake of it when you can do nothing about it. All the panya routes and soldiers are everywhere, but what do they do? They collect from some vehicles and ban all other vehicles and that becomes the headline. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is the way that this country operates. How do you even help our people to survive and exploit our natural resources properly? These are things which should be looked at. In the KRA, a subordinate staff is a multi-millionaire. How? Everything in this country has a problem because of corruption. Until we are able to fight corruption, whatever good things we do, whatever good Bills we pass or what we try to do as a House of Parliament, nothing will work. I am very happy about the way the Senator wants the revenue divided. That would be great if it could work, but who will allow it? The Sovereign Fund at 20 per cent, for what? There is 60 per cent for the national Government and 40 per cent to develop the natural resources in our country. Those are dreams which I will be happy to see become a reality. Unfortunately, I do not think that these things will happen. These are some of the issues which will be killed immediately they leave here. The Sovereign Fund has 20 per cent, then 80 per cent for the national Government. From the 80 per cent that remains, 60 per cent is for the national Government and 40 per cent for the county government. Somebody talked about Turkana and about getting even 10 or 15 per cent. That money has not reached the community. It does not reach, and nobody benefits from it. Was it Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. who said that the leadership wants to take everything and use it for their own purposes when the poor mothers and nomads there are suffering? Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not know how we can change this country. We need the grace of God and something to come from somewhere to help change this country because of the way things are done. We do not care about people who are down trodden. We do not want to help the small time people come up. There is a certain area along the border with Moyale called Thabero. There is a lot of gold. I am told that the big powers are now fighting over it. The locals have been mining that gold for the last 20 years, but the Government does not even recognize it. Nothing even happens. Sometimes you will see people fight amongst themselves. There is a certain area in Wajir North where a whole hill has been brought down flat because some people found some gold. They went there and the whole hill went down. A person will tell you that he has gotten a half a kilogramme of rock, but he will go back to the way he was because there is no proper management on usage of these resources. When people get small money and they have no one to advise them on how to use it, they misuse it. However, if the Government, through the Ministry of Mining, took experts to the people to advise them on how to form associations and cooperatives, the local community, county government and national Government would have benefited. Unfortunately, these things to do not happen."
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