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    "content": "(Hon. Mvurya): Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The Mining Act of 2016 is very clear on the sharable benefits for mining and other mineral activities. The Act stipulates that 70 percent of revenue in terms of royalties will be shared to the national Government, 10 percent will go to the local communities and 20 percent to the county government. In addition, we have subsequent regulations which also state that in every mining investment there is need to have local content. This means local supplies, jobs and other local benefits such as the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). However, in the last few years this has not been enforced. Part of what we want to do in the reform is to make sure we have clarity. For example, on the issue of jobs in Tana River County, we want to go ahead and specify with the investor on how many jobs are for the local community. We have already unlocked the benefits to county governments. We have identified 32 counties which can benefit from royalties and we have sent it to the National Treasury. This week, my team finalized the framework for local communities because the National Treasury and other partners argued that there was no framework to release 10 percent to them. My team has already concluded this process. We will be discussing the framework, putting it to public participation and then finalise it. I assure Members that although there have been challenges before in the mining sector like the ones articulated, we are now on schedule to make sure we address issues of benefits. More importantly, is the issue of illegal mining. If these miners had a license, they would have complied with the conditions. These are some of the miners who we will chase very soon because they are not complying with the regulations that have been articulated."
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