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    "content": "of the country. If you go to Turkwel there is not a single village that has been given power yet it is generated there and transmitted all the way to the favoured areas of Eldoret, Kisumu, Bungoma, Nairobi, Murang’a and wherever. It is high time this country learnt to reward the custodians of resources. People have lived and taken care of these resources for years. Then when we get the resources, it is business as usual. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, look at what is going on in Turkana. I hope that we are not breeding another Boko Haram in another five to ten years. You cannot go to Turkana and extravagantly announce that they are sitting on the largest underground water resource in this country and then you find oil and toast champagne every other day that a new well has been found, yet the Turkana people are living as the scum of the earth. People are dying for failing to get just a drop of water and also because there is no food. We have been told in the media – I hope that it is not true – that people in Turkana have been eating dogs, because there is no food, yet this is the county that is going to be the backbone of the economy of this country with oil. Even this talk of having a refinery in Lamu and Isiolo is hogwash. Let us take the refinery to Turkana itself, so that we can give the Turkana boys and girls employment and turn their fortunes around. We can impress upon the oil companies that given the history that we have seen in Nigeria, Angola and many other countries with poor and weak systems, where when resources arrive, they become a total curse to the country; we do not want to go that route. This Senate will be doing a great service to this country if we are able to help our brothers and sisters in Turkana to realize the full benefits of the resources that they have kept for this country for centuries. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at what is going on in other areas as well, like the geothermal plant in Naivasha, as we mine geothermal power, we are pushing the Maasais further and further away from their ancestral land without compensation. Nobody thinks about them. They are being driven further and further---"
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