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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "The national Government does not have its own territory but carries out its projects within counties. The Senate then must supervise how that money is used to ensure that the country is equitably developed. With those few remarks, I support. A few minutes ago, I noticed that one region was fully represented in this House. We had a Senator from Vihiga, Bungoma, Kakamega and Busia counties. The entire western region was fully represented in this House. This is to show that as a heavily marginalised area with extreme potential, we take matters of public finances seriously. We are in a region where all the factories have failed. The “bullfighter” can confirm to me that we have no fully functioning factory in the western region. When these small allocations come in, we would like to see facilitation to the potential we have in the area. For Busia, I would like to see facilitation for mining. I want to see the Samia Hills being mined and the iron ore being turned into wealth, and the gold in Bumutiru being mined and given to us. It is a very sad situation whereby because of the very primitive equipment being used, I am told we take out about 20 per cent of the gold on site. Then, lorries come from Tanzania to carry away the soil and take them for further smelting. I am told, 75 to 80 per cent of the gold is in that soil. When somebody comes and buys a lorry of soil for Kshs30,000, there must be something in that soil. Why can we not be allocated money to be able to get the equipment to do all the processing or the extraction of the gold on site within the Republic of Kenya? Instead, we wait to only extract a small bit using very crude methods, washing gold using naked hands and we are using mercury. We are anticipating an explosion of cancer in Bumutiru in a very short time. We needed to be allocated money to modernise the mining in Bumutiru and the other areas of Busia and knock out the Tanzanians who are coming to carry away our gold at a throwaway price. Thank you, very much."
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