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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, the criteria for sharing wealth is critical and it must be put in place. In the new Bill, we must avoid creating too many committees because if you go to the county where there are mineral resources and create a committee for coal, they are also eating, you create a committee for gold, they are also eating, you create a committee for gas, they are also eating. We know we have developed such bad habits in this country. We will end up squandering those resources. As we move towards these exciting times, it will only be good Kenyans who are morally upright, right thinking, like the distinguished Senator who brought this matter that will help this country. I have been watching with a lot of interest what is going on in Kwale. There is a mineral in Kwale called niobium whose value far exceeds any oil you can talk about. When you hold your mobile handset, the stabilizer in there is rare earth which is the niobium. So, you can imagine that this is a mineral that Nokia, Samsung and every mobile phone manufacturer is using. I just hope that the County Government of Kwale is properly seized of this matter and this wealth is not fleeing because the names associated with the company that is extracting or about to extract that mineral are not names that you can take to a bank for an overdraft. These are the same people who are likely to frisk every cent from this wealth of the people of Kwale and disappear with it. Equally important are the lands on which these minerals are being found. Madam Temporary Speaker, you can see the brouhaha that is coming out from high priests of Jubilee who think that because they fiddle, everybody else fiddles. We must look at the history of this country critically. Where did the rain start beating us? How did whole families own land equal to provinces and districts? They are now the ones taking the moral high ground and ordering for titles to be cancelled without starting with themselves. In my article yesterday, I said that in the Bible, Jesus said: “Before you see the speck in your brother’s eye, remove the log in your own”. People with logs in each eye who cannot even see are now pretending that they are the high priests of good behaviour."
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