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    "id": 1424467,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1424467/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
        "slug": "bonny-khalwale"
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    "content": "prospecting. We have unscrupulous companies to which your Department grants prospecting licences, but they come to do mining. A case in point is in Kakamega, where Shanta Gold has been prospecting for 21 years. Three years ago, the people of Kakamega came together and refused - that Shanta Gold must go or start mining. They disappeared. Suddenly, we have seen the re-entry of Shanta Gold in recent months and weeks. Could it be that the Cabinet Secretary means to say that you have given Shanta Gold in the name of investing Kshs5.8 billion in Kakamega, where I was born and brought up, educated, and live and do bullfighting? There is no such investment. If it was, it would be on Plot No.1269, Isukha Mkomari, which is my land, where there is gold. I beg the Cabinet Secretary, please come to Kakamega. There is a time bomb now. The locals have had enough of Shanta Gold. They have money. They influence some of the people in your department, and they get away with it. Protect us. We want the people of Ikolomani to enjoy their God-given resource. We are rich; richer than many counties in this country. I beg the Cabinet Secretary. You come from Kwale where there is gold mining. Poverty there is too high, just like in Kakamega. Let us do something together, so that our people can enjoy minerals, the way people in Dubai enjoy the oil that they mine in Dubai. I want to see Dubai in Kakamega because we have the money; research has confirmed. Cabinet Secretary, it is not a question. It is a crime. Please, take charge. Some of our local leaders including elected ones are working in cahoots with these people who are exploiting the commonwealth of the people of Kakamega."
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