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    "id": 1094028,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "uplifting jobs that even the locals can do. It is time that when there is a project in an area, can it benefit? It can benefit the whole country because it is a probably a national project, but also the people that live just next. Madam Temporary Speaker, you cannot dig that there, get the resources and then they see nothing out of the returns that come out of it. This will help us bring people together and integrate this society and to make sure that everybody is being taken care of. This is so that it is not feeling like a resource is being taken from one area to another. That that other area is benefiting while this particular where you are getting that resource, is not. I want to talk about two areas specifically if I may refer to Kajiado County because that is where I understand more. At one point, we had a very big dispute in the East African Portland Cement. There is so much raw material used from that area where I come from and we have a lot of plants. One day the company was almost going under and decided to sack everybody. Madam Temporary Speaker, when we came to check who has been sacked and how much percentage of each community is there, we were shocked to learn that there are areas where there is no representation at all even in employment. It is time that people cannot marginalize even in employment those ones that are there. They should be given their own quarter so that they feel like they belong. That they can even own those projects ran in the country. Since they feel they own, they will always take care of it. It is sad if we have to keep talking about resources and those resources are gotten out probably if it is a land resource and those that live in that land cannot benefit. In fact, if you look at most of the issues that are being handled by the Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity where I sit, it is just issues of people feeling that they are not included. There is no inclusivity in what we are doing. They feel agitated and they are fighting for their rights. The other day we were at Kenya Ports Authority (KPA). Madam Temporary Speaker, we went to Kenya Maritime Authority (KMA) because there was a Statement in this Senate that the people from that area and region are not being considered. Then I make a Statement on East African Portland Cement that they are not being considered. Then a Statement on Teachers Service Commission (TSC) that people are not being considered. Then a Statement on Kipeto wind power that the people from that region are not being considered. This is a good Bill that can help us ensure that we have inclusivity in every area; the development and resources in this country. The land resource is very valuable and we have so much land in this country. If we are doing mining, can we ensure that as you do your mining, the people from that area are also benefiting. Madam Temporary Speaker, can you imagine some of these areas like in that area where I am talking about the East African Portland Cement, you can find that it is not passable. There is no road. These companies cannot even do simple social responsibility projects for their own comfort and the community. They used to do boreholes for the community. At one point I was told they were all dead because they cannot sustain those boreholes for the sake of the community to get water just nearby yet you are benefiting from the same resource from that area where the people are living. On the wind power, why can you not employ? Even if you do not get the experts, can you employ the rest of the nonskilled labour? That kind of ownership by the people"
}