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    "id": 474743,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/474743/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogalo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Oner Ogalo",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I think this is a Bill when finally signed into law will help improve the way mining has been taking place in this country. For those who have been keen in this House, there was a question asked sometime back about Sky Rock Company which exported gold. When we talked to the company in the Departmental Committee hearings, they specified that they were not keeping the details of where they got gold because the small-scale or traditional miners could not dare give them those details because they were engaging in an illegal activity.For the first time, the companies that deal in gold in Kenya will have to declare their sources of gold. If we are told that you are exporting tonnes of gold worth billions of shillings, we will be able to ascertain that, that gold originated from Kenya and that value went to the communities where that gold was mined. We will no longer be a conduit for smuggling of gold from the wider East African region where people go to Congo, buy gold cheaply, smuggle it into Kenya and declare it as gold originating from Kenya. This fuels what would easily be a money laundering scheme."
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