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    "id": 473317,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ganya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
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    "content": "We should also provide safeguards for large scale miners in this country, and ensure that the necessary services that they need in terms of capital, training, capacity building are provided to them, so that they can participate effectively in this sector. We do hope they will organize themselves and form umbrella bodies, so that they can be represented in the different institutions that we are creating in this Bill to ensure that they also do benefit from this sector. The National Mining Corporation will be an investment arm of our country. This is again informed by good precedent in other parts of the world. Countries with mineral resources actually do have state corporations, which serve as investment arms for those countries; they are able to generate wealth for those nations and create employment for their citizens; in this way they enable the mineral resource to really serve a country. I do not think it will be in order for us to basically call in corporations from China or elsewhere in the world without building our own capacities and providing employment to our people through creation of our own institutions. This is a good practice and we really do hope that this House will support this position."
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