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    "id": 1384007,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Koyi",
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to this Bill. I want to sympathise with the Committee and especially the Chairman. When he was moving the Bill yesterday, he was not himself. However, it was his duty as the Chairman to move. In the first place, this Bill mostly touches on the county governments. Kenya, as a country, has a lot of natural resources, but they are not properly utilised. We need to put proper measures, regulations, and acts in place to help this country and our people. The owners of that land in the new Constitution are the county governments. The landowners in those various counties are people with title deeds. The land is for the people of Kenya. When the Government embarks on mining, those people are not considered properly when it is doing valuations. They are not paid as they are supposed to be. It is important that we go slow on this Bill. Hon. Temporary Speaker, Kenya has many minerals, such as oil. Since 1987, when the late President Moi announced the oil presence in this country, it just went under, and Kenyans do not know why. Three years ago, the retired President Uhuru mentioned about oil in Turkana. We are crying about the prices of everything, including food, because of oil prices and yet, oil is in Turkana. It is rumoured to have been transported to a particular country, and we seem to have been misled. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you have been in this Parliament for long. It was alleged that the oil had been taken to a particular country for refining, but it was not clear which country it was. However, up to date, we are still suffering as Kenyans. Our President has travelled all over the world looking for money and trying to revive the economy of this country, and I appreciate him. However, we have oil. What are we doing with it? Some people in this country may be sitting on it and negotiating with other countries. We do not know. I do not support this Bill. I cannot support something that affects Kenyans. We have sources of energy, oil, gold and copper in this country. The Chinese have been carrying our copper to China for several years, but have not seen the benefits. Do they carry it for free, or do they pay for it? If they pay, where is the money? Why has the Government not announced how many billions or trillions of shillings the country has received from copper and other natural resources? I oppose this Bill."
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