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    "id": 1384786,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I thank the Members who have contributed towards this. As you have put it, we support revenue sharing. However, in this proposed Bill from the Senate, Petroleum Act, 2019 has a formula on how revenue is shared; Energy Act also has a formula on how revenue from power like solar, geothermal and the wind is shared; and in the Wildlife Act, matters to do with their resources has a percentage of how its people would benefit. When the Committee had public participation, it was thorough. Out of the 19 stakeholders who appeared before the Committee, 16 of them did not agree with the proposals. However, three of them agreed. We understood the three because they were community-based organisations and groupings which had come and were told that they needed to read the Petroleum Act, 2019. If you come from Turkana where we have a petroleum product, there is revenue sharing, it is only that the petroleum has never gone to the production phase for them to start benefitting from. If you come to Nakuru County, for example, they benefit from the geothermal through royalties. In the Mining Act, Kwale for instance, now that the President is very keen on matters mining, last year, it received royalties amounting to Ksh1 billion. It is not that the Committee does not want the counties and communities to benefit. We want each resource to be dealt with by its respective Acts of Parliament. You cannot equate sand to gold. If you say that everybody would get 40 per cent, you will end up giving billions of shillings to some counties. What then 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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