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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaruma",
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        "legal_name": "Johnes Mwashushe Mwaruma",
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    "content": "ensuring that we have the royalties paid, then we would have had adequate money in terms of mineral royalties. The money that is captured here and I might not be very far from the truth, is the money from the iron ore because the good thing with iron ore is that before you get the export licence, you should have already paid the royalties to Government. Nevertheless, the expensive minerals that are being extracted from Taita Taveta are the green garnet, the rubies of this world where people are getting billions. However, because of their nature, they are very small and you can put them in the pockets and smuggle them out of the county to Nairobi, Sri Lanka and to the rest of the world. Therefore, we are not able to get revenue. Perhaps, if we have a better way of making sure that we can line up the people who are mining and taking part in the mineral business, then I think we can get more royalties than what we got in this Bill. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there are so many illegal miners within Taita Taveta. We have raised these issues with the Cabinet Secretary and Principal Secretary (PS). The other time I talked to the PS Mining, he went and stopped the illegal mining activities. This is because there are people who pose as artisanal miners. There are women’s groups taking part in small scale artisanal mining. However, behind them, there are very rich people who are using heavy tractors and machinery under the guise that they are mining as artisanal miners. I was surprised I do not know from which quarter, somebody allowed them to continue mining. We have brought the Cabinet Secretary for mining here, Hon. Salim Mvurya. His people went down and then there is a person there who is complicit and, who is eating with the illegal miners. As I talk now, I am told there are some people who are still smuggling the minerals out of the county. What is the role of the County Commissioner, Deputy Chief Constable (DCC) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI)? When I say this, I am told that I am bitter. I have to be harsh because we are dealing with finite resources. These resources are supposed to assist our people and we are supposed to even have some sort of refund; so that, if the minerals get finished, then we can also go to the sovereign fund and help our people. We must keep agitating and keep up the war on illegal mining in Taita Taveta County. We must tell the Ministry and the Government to make sure that they streamline mining. The other issue that is making us not extract minerals is the moratorium that was put in place by the Government. We have followed through with the Cabinet Secretary for Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs. He has told us that it is not within his domain to lift the moratorium and it was placed by the National Security Advisory Council because then---"
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