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    "id": 1614162,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614162/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matuga, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kassim Tandaza",
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    "content": "beyond the 200 nautical miles commonly referred to ‘high seas’ or the area beyond national jurisdiction whereby each country or nation can exploit that area without referring to Kenya although it is part of the Indian Ocean. With the level of development that we have, we are not able to monitor that area. As it stands, we are not even able to monitor the 200 nautical miles’ EEZ effectively. It is the only from the treaty we are going to get an opportunity to know what is happening at the high seas or the area beyond the national jurisdiction. Since we do not have the economic power and technology, it is only by assenting to treaty that we will benefit the knowledge and the natural resources being harvested there. Oceans are for prosperity. We will know how much fish and biodiversity is in that area when the time we can also exploit that area comes and, therefore, benefit from it. Without belabouring much and now that we have a whole Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs, this is the right time for us to ratify the Treaty, so that the country can benefit. Once we are signatories to the Treaty, there will even be a fund whereby we as a country can apply to and tap. With those few remarks, I second."
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