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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the Natural Resources (Benefit Sharing) Bill (Senate Bills No. 6 of 2022) be now read a Second time. Kenya fought for independence. In the year 1952 a state of emergency was declared for this country. People died; over 20,000 people died fighting for the land that belonged to the people of Kenya. At that time, we were under the colonial rule. The colonies had taken away our land and our people joined up to fight for their land. On 21st October, 1956, Field Marshal General Dedan Kimathi was captured and his picture still mesmerizes me. The man fought for what he believed in, the land, the resource of our people and he died a very proud man. If you fast forward to a few years where we are living now, natural resources that we fought for in this country was not only the land that was there. Natural resources that we fought for in this country for which our fore-fathers laid their lives for was not only dealing with the land as we know it, but it dealt with both extractive and non-extractive resources. This Bill is talking about the second fight for the resources; the richness of our land to go back to our people. Our people have suffered severely because there has been extraction from their land and they benefit nothing. This Bill is talking about benefit sharing of resources that have been found in counties like Tana River, Turkana, and in any other part of this country. We are talking about benefit sharing of those resources so that the communities that are living within those counties can benefit. Counties should realize the second fight for independence and the resources in their land. This Bill provides for a way in which we can enforce a system of sharing the natural resources that are found within the area. There are benefits which come from the exploitation of these natural resources. For the first time, we are proposing in this Bill that the national and county governments have their fair share. The natural resource exploiters; those who have come to invest and get the money out of it, should have their fair share. The local communities should also have their fair share. This is the main purpose of this Bill."
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