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    "id": 1094074,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1094074/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "claiming this exorbitant percentage where the national Government takes 68 per cent; the community, 12 per cent; and, the county government, 20 per cent? Is that how it will go? Then the exploration of natural resources--- We need to have laws. Currently, the raw material for titanium in Kwale County is exported as it is. The other day, I heard a clip of the late President of Tanzania, Hon. Magufuli, saying they had experienced this kind of thing in Tanzania. Foreigners would say the material they mined and exported had only 40 per cent of copper and that the rest was useless. However, they tested that material and found that it had more than seven other minerals in it. That is how these people are short-changing us. Madam Temporary Speaker, we must have laws, which state that in the event of exploitation of natural resources, there must be minimum processing of that natural resource on site. This will provide employment to the local communities and also help us know what these people are exploiting. We have lost our minerals in that manner. Somebody just comes, collects raw material and tells you it is only 40 per cent copper, when there are many other minerals in it. We need to have other laws to make sure that if natural resources are to be exploited, there must be minimum processing of that resource on site so that we know what it is and the locals also get employment. When they pay that, we will even know what royalties we are claiming. If you take all that soil and say that it is 60 per cent titanium, or something like that, they will pay less if it is not properly declared. For the sake of knowing what royalties they are to pay, we need to have proper analysis. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support the Bill. I hope that it will go a long way in making sure that the exploitation of our resources by most of the time non- locals, will end. Out of this, the counties, especially the arid land counties, will have an incentive of calling in developers so that they can develop wind farms and solar energy, because we have seen the potential that is there. There will now be an incentive from which they will get a direct benefit. Without this kind of benefit sharing, people even fear to allow investors to come. I support the Bill"
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