{"id":479813,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/479813/?format=json","text_counter":218,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Lati","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":2762,"legal_name":"Jonathan Lelelit Lati","slug":"jonathan-lelelit-lati"},"content":"Hon. Speaker, the other thing that this Bill is silent on is the recognition of small- scale miners. You know, apart from the big investors that we get from abroad that we give a lot of attention or the big businessmen from Nairobi, there are small-scale miners across our villages. These are people who just collect minerals and seell. If you go to Arusha today, you will get so many Maasais digging a lot of tanzanite and diamonds and I think there is need to make sure that we recognise those people within our legal frameworks."}