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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Joe Nyutu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support the National Resources (Benefits Sharing) Bill (Senate Bill No. 6 of 2022). This is because of some things that are happening in our country, especially by some foreign owned companies that do business in our counties. In Murang’a County, for example, we have Kakuzi Limited, a well know company that has vested a lot of historical injustices to our people in Murang’a. The company though domiciled in Murang’a and benefiting from the hospitality of our people, remains very hostile. Sometimes they cannot even allow a footpath across some of the areas, making the residents cover long distances, while trying to avoid anything Kakuzi. This is something that should not be allowed to continue happening in this day and age. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you go to Kakuzi - and I have nothing against Kakuzi; it is an investor and we really want to encourage foreign investors - you will note that most of the land that they are occupying is not being put to any productive use. That in the background of a county where we have very many landless people; people who are very hardworking but do not have land where they can farm and earn their daily bread. This is something that should not be allowed to continue happening. I am not here to prosecute Kakuzi, but I am here to support this Motion because Kakuzi benefits from our natural resources and that resource is land in the thousands of acres. Most of the land, like I have said, is not being put to any use. What they have done is that they have gone along major roads and grown some trees, so that no one is able to see what happens in the vast parcels of land. The vast land lying in there are not being used and this is something that should be looked into."
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