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    "id": 1218412,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Lomenen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Lomenen Ekomwa",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I support this Bill. In the county I come from, we have innumerable resources that I cannot even count. However, the one that is obvious and that everybody knows is crude oil. They have discovered and they are still going on to drill more than 400 wells. There is gold in Turkana County and these other counties. There is also so much sand in counties like Marsabit, Turkana and West Pokot. I see lorries carrying sand from Machakos County to Nairobi City County yet it is available in Turkana County. I sympathize with those people. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other biggest mineral which competes with oil is solar. If you do a good survey, you will find sun in Marsabit and in Turkana counties is not the level it is in Nairobi City County. I believe it has lowered because it is now 42 degrees celcius. It is low because these places are usually too hot. When we tap this solar, the cost of electricity will be cheaper in this country. A live case example is the known international well called Ngamia-1 which produces highest volume of oil. The children and people from that well, a village called Nakuklas, are still begging for water, food, clothing and drugs. If someone falls sick and needs Aspirin or Panadol, they are not available. This is a reality. Mr. Speaker, Sir, God was perfect to create this world. He did not make any mistake to disadvantage any area. What God did was very diplomatic in a way that some minerals are above ground while others are below. For example; farmers have potatoes and maize crops while us in the pastoral areas; we are advantaged with the provision of livestock. Where there is no grass, there is gold, oil and water underneath. People ignore and neglect these resources. It pains me that a multinational organization like the Tullow Oil being given a contract to go, explore and drill oil in Northern Kenya, Turkana County, only to deny the local community the opportunity it deserves."
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