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    "id": 1522980,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1522980/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to support this Bill. I thank Hon. Shinali who has seen it right that the gold processing sector be regulated, organised and further developed. This Bill is long overdue. I remember one time when the Government of Kenya did resources mapping known as the Natural Resource Information Mapping System in 2016, it found out that this country has huge deposits of several minerals, which have been enumerated by my colleagues, such as iron ore, coal, oil deposits, rare earth metals and all these other kinds of minerals. Hon. Temporary Speaker, this Bill seeks to address gold processing in this country, which has not been addressed for some time. The Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs and this House need to recognise that we have concentrated so much on agricultural production such as livestock, tea, coffee and other commodities, while neglecting our minerals. This Bill seeks to establish the Gold Processing Corporation. It also seeks to look at its functions, the functions of the board, the management and the legal and institutional framework for collecting, purifying and smelting gold. I come from a constituency where there is a lot of gold. However, the processing, licensing and management of the gold has been very sporadic. At times it is at the whims of the Inspector of Mines, or even the prospector can allocate himself a licence and start mining. In fact, even the declaration of how much gold one has harvested is at the whims of the processor. This Bill seeks to regulate the sector and will generate more foreign earnings for the country than any other sector. The legal framework we are developing will make the gold sector a real earner for our country. 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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