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    "id": 277696,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/277696/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nanok",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 57,
        "legal_name": "Josephat Koli Nanok",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, I raise these issues because Sudan and Southern Sudan are about to fight over oil. Nigeria has been fighting within itself about oil. Angola has been fighting within itself about oil. Now that we have made a major discovery in this country, let us make sure that we put the requisite legislation so that we avoid the situation that those countries have gone into. I like the President when he said in his Speech that he is going to put the income that is going to be generated out of the oil into prudent use. But what we are demanding as representatives of the citizens of this country and, particularly, from the marginalized areas of Turkana County, is equity. That is because when the oil discovery was made, there was talk in the media that land in Turkana had been sold and exploratory licences were being sold here and there. This is the time when thousands of Kenyans were dying due to famine. Kenyans for Kenya were busy fundraising to buy food to take to the poor Turkana mothers and children. I would really call upon the relevant Committees of this House to investigate this issue and bring it to rest."
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