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    "id": 1384014,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1384014/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John K. Mutunga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I join my colleagues in looking at this Bill once more. I wish the Committee considered provisions within the Mining Act, the Petroleum Act, the Constitution, and many others. The definition of a natural resource is key. There is the risk that we might get ourselves into regarding the sharable resources. One of the things we need to be careful about is what the immediate former contributor to this Bill has said. He has been alluding to resources like water that comes from his county. If you look at water or follow this resource and look at what happens to it, it will flow from a spring or source to where it will either be completely consumed or get into the ocean or any other water body. Who becomes the owner of those resources? If you ask the people in Murang'a to contain water there, they will have a bigger problem than allowing it to flow. If you look at the River Nile and the kind of agreement we have with countries along the Nile, any containment of the water upstream causes some jitters across. That natural resource is not shared just within Kenya but internationally. We have to allow it to go. This Bill needs to be better thought through. We need to decide what we are looking at regarding natural resources. The Bill aims to establish a fair benefit-sharing formula for natural resources and their exploitation. If we look at the benefits, we must define natural resources to a finite level. Otherwise, we may not be able to clearly get what it is. I have seen the formula that the Senate or the drafter of the Bill has proposed. I have also seen the contribution made by the National Assembly. I want to refer us to this formula. The Natural Resources (Benefit Sharing) Bill (Senate Bill No. 6 of 2022) proposes a benefit- sharing ratio of 60 and 40 per cent for the national and county governments, respectively. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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