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    "id": 479809,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/479809/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I think what I wanted to speak more on is the silence of this Bill on very important issues. The first thing that this Bill is silent on that is very important is the revenue sharing formula between the county governments, the communities and the national Government. I think without a clear framework on how communities that are close to the mineral areas benefit, we risk having community-investor conflicts when exploiting these minerals and that is the last thing we want to do when we want to improve our economy and when our economy is slowly moving into a resource economy. We want to make sure that those communities that live around mineral areas benefit so that they can have a good time with the people who invest in those minerals. We want to make sure that the county governments which are the custodians of these minerals at the local level and who hold the minerals in trust for the people of Kenya also benefit in certain ways. We want to make sure that the revenue that is generated from these minerals also benefits our country as a whole. I think one of the amendments that is necessary in this Bill, and I would support it, is to bring a revenue sharing formula that is clear and that serves all those three communities."
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