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    "id": 1287168,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1287168/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I appreciate the Cabinet Secretary for finding time to come and respond to questions from Members, a couple of kilometres away from the Capital. This is important to us and we appreciate that they found time for this. I have a Question for the Cabinet Secretary. Firstly, I am aware that towards the end of the last administration, for three or so years, the Government froze all mining license applications for people who were either doing exploration or for the mining activities that were going on. That has caused a bit of anxiety in companies that are already doing mining activities in the country as their licenses are about to lapse and for those that had secured investments, raised resources and were willing to begin such exercises in Kenya. Mining is one of the industries that can earn us the elusive foreign income exchange because of the resources that we have underneath. Therefore, can the Cabinet Secretary confirm how far they are in doing that and how long Kenyans have to wait before this process can commence; and that people can get issued with licenses so that Kenya can hold against the slide by the Kenyan shilling against other world major currencies due to lack of exports. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is one avenue with which we can use to solve this problem. So, how long will the country have to wait?"
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