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    "id": 473408,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ngikor",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Ngikor Nixon",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to thank the Committee Chairlady for what she has said about land. We really know what it means when we talk of community land in the Constitution but when it comes to community land, like trust land, it is a different matter. We are now giving the Cabinet Secretary the mandate of finding somebody who can go and work on that land without the knowledge of the community. How can that happen? In the previous constitutional dispensation, county councils were the custodians of trust land, but the land belonged to the communities. The county councils were just there to give guidance on the use of trust land. The other issue I would like to comment on is about sharing of revenue. This aspect is supposed to be clearly defined. We need to know what percentage will go to the national Government, what percentage will go to the county governments and what percentage will go to the host communities. My colleagues who spoke before me talked about coffee and tea. Why is all this coming up at this time? We have never talked about coffee in this House. We have not talked about tea. We have not talked about maize, as hon. Wamalwa said. We have just been going on, receiving whatever we received. We have been marginalised all these years. This is now our turn to develop. It is not somebody’s time. It is God’s time. It is God who looked back and saw that there are people who have been left behind in this country. So, we need to move together. With regard to the percentages, if it is 10 per cent for the host communities, let us all support that position, so that those communities which have been left behind all these years can also join the rest of the communities in this country, so that we can talk of Vision 2030 together, instead of talking of Vision 2030 for some areas when we have no roads or schools or water in other places. An hon. Member proposed 70 per cent for the national Government; 20 per cent for the county governments, and 10 per cent for the host communities. I support that proposal and beg hon. Members to also support it, so that the host communities can also benefit out of the revenue realised from extraction of the resources. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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