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    "id": 1218431,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "You just need to do that in the Liranda belt and the lives of our people will change instantly. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of our County will shoot up and by association, the GDP of the Republic. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is a shame because people know the value of gold and they know how to identify it. They are not waiting for any investor. They go down there themselves. Consequently, the mining is claiming the lives of our youths. Every weekend, I bury a youth in Kakamega County. Two weeks ago, my counterpart, Gov. Barasa, was there but I was not since I was on national duty up here. He buried five youth. A village just wiped out five children. The week before, I had buried a father and his firstborn. I will share with you, Mr. Speaker. Five years ago, I decided to be curious. I wondered how people could die out of gold mining and they continue going back? So, I went to Shichinji in one of the homes of the people who had perished. I wanted somebody to give my sadaka. I found the brother of Fahu, the youth who had died. Fahu’s brother was missing at home. They pointed to me where he had gone and I followed him. I called him out: “Where are you?” I found Fahu’s brother had gone back into the same pit to extract more soil so as to sell in order to defray the funeral costs. I decided on that day, that I would join Fahus’s brother in the pit. I went down 120 feet and helped him. We scooped the soil and we were again lifted out to make my statement that I care. When you are 120 feet down there, you are a millisecond away from death. That is how our people are neglected. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I urge President William Ruto who knows about this issue - He came to Kakamega in his 100 days and spoke to the Liranda goldmine - to move with speed. Sen. Cherarkey, now, here I go. There is something called wind power. Lake Turkana wind power produces 310 million megawatts of green energy. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you go to the neighbourhood of Marsabit and Turkana, children are walking without clothes, leave alone shoes. They have potbellies because of infestation by worms and they drop out of school. The youth are into cattle rustling to raise an income, whereas they produce 310 million megawatts. What is the natural resource here? It is a modern natural resource called carbon credit. There is carbon credit worth millions of dollars in those windmills, which the Government structured. The First World countries contribute to negative climate change, by releasing carbon emissions from their factories, according to the United Nations (UN). They have signed and agreed to pay back to any activity in the world anywhere that adds to positive climate change, including producing green energy such as is happening in Marsabit and Turkana. The Government should be organised. The Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs should be up to it. It should work with the Ministry of Environment and National Resources, to ensure that we harvest our carbon credits, which would then go back to Marsabit, Turkana and other areas where we produce power from windmill."
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