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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "gas. The 20 per cent should go to the county, then the 30 per cent should go to that local community. Additionally, if you recall, most of the water comes from Murang'a and we were developing a tunnel that will bring water from Murang'a to Nairobi to satisfy the needs of the people in Nairobi. Why is it that when you go to Murang'a, the people of Murang'a for example, do not have sufficient water yet people from Nairobi are benefiting from it? This is similar to Nandi County in Emgwen and Chesumei Sub- County, our water is being used in Kakamega. However, when you go to Kiptuya Bay and around Kapkangani areas, they do not have water. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the essence is at least having the local content being valued by those people. I am happy with the Senator for Murang'a, my brother, Sen. Joe Nyutu, as he should follow up on this because at the end of the day, we end up taking the whole water to Nairobi but when you go to Murang'a Water and Sanitation Company, it becomes a problem. We must listen to the ground so that we do not attract the unnecessary wrath from the people. When you look at Clause 3, Kenya is still very clean because it talks about the exploitation of gas and other petroleum resources. We need to resolve the issue of Tullow Oil. I know the capacity and the projection that we wanted especially in Turkana. We must ensure that the people of Turkana are beneficiaries. The Committee on Energy should ensure that if Tullow Oil is mining and extracting petroleum and oil at least it should give value to the people of Turkana. My proposal has always been very simple. Under local content, let us review the revenues from 70 per cent. Let us give 15 per cent to the national Government, 30 per cent to the local community and then 20 per cent to counties, because at the end of the day when you are exploiting these resources, you might end up destroying the roads and water sources as a lot of processes is undertaken when exploring the minerals. When you look at Clause 11, it talks of their assessment of local capabilities and under Article 10, we must look at public participation too together with Clauses 9 and 10 which talk about the establishment of a Local Development Committee. The Mining Act talks about the Mining Development Committee and that Committee is very important. For instance, if you are generating revenue and you are saying 50 per cent of this revenue will go to the national Government, 30 per cent should go to the local community and maybe 20 per cent should go to counties in terms of division of that revenue, for the 30 per cent, you must have a gazetted Local Content Development Committee. I hope the Mover of the Bill is noting. We already have a Mining Development Committee under the Mining Act. Now you want to establish a Local Content Development Committee. It will be what we call overlapping of duties. Is it possible to amend the Mining Act 2015 and the Mining Rules, 2015 to ensure that we do not need to establish a Local Development Committee and establish a Mining Development Committee? Mr. Speaker, Sir, in principle, I agree that this Committee should be there, such that the revenue that is developed can be shared. For example, when we were pushing for Karebe Gold reforms, we wanted a gazetted Mining Development Committee that out of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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