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"speaker_name": "Hon. Hassan Ali Joho",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs",
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"content": "Obviously, I will be consulting and seeking your support to be able to amend the law, so that if someone pays royalty, 70 per cent goes to the national Government, 20 per cent should go to counties, and 20 per cent should go to communities and CDAC. One per cent gross should directly go to the community. So, this is a matter that requires reform in our law. I am already in discussion with the relevant Committee in the National Assembly, and looking forward to engaging you, the Senate. Sen. Olekina, I am not so sure whether you are right by saying Narok may be the biggest gold producer. We really do not have the data, but that said and done, you still deserve to be paid royalties on time. Senator, I took the decision of terminating some of the licenses because of failure to comply with royalties payment. I am glad that you worked with us in Narok and supported us, and now we are in the process of identifying good and reliable companies that will take the liabilities of the periods of companies, pay the communities, fulfill the obligations, and be able to get a fresh license. So, I also identify with your sentiments, and this is something that we are doing. Sen. Makau, my brother, on Kitui mining, particularly on copper. Kitui is endowed with lots of resources and copper is one of the most important and critical minerals around the world today. When we came in, we found that there was a lot of export of copper ore. We took a decision as a Ministry, stopped the export of copper ore, and as we speak, there is not a single tonnage of copper that is exported. Therefore, we are slowly managing extraction of our copper. What we are doing as a Ministry today is to consider the entire value chain. That means that if we have copper deposits in the country, we should be able to move it to copper concentrate and copper cathode to be able to achieve job creation and wealth creation. So, Senator, I assure you, the ones that had been mining earlier, we are pursuing them through our DCI unit. The ones that are doing today, we have now deployed districts mining officers to ensure there are no illegal activities. We are also working with the NGAOs in the districts, so that we can tame these illegal mining activities. The Senator for Tana River, my brother, umeniuliza mambo ya gypsum, it is the"
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