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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, if we do not protect these resources at this point in time in our history, generations in Kwale, 20 or 50 years on or children in Wajir or in Turkana will be faced with almost similar circumstances that we are facing today; that those who presided over power at that point in time are people who have inherited enormous wealth from self perpetuation and preservation. Therefore, this Bill comes at the right time when we start to discover our minerals, and we must make sure that we particularly protect communities. Madam Temporary Speaker, we cannot have this language – and I keep saying it here all the time; that peace is a function of justice and equity – we cannot have this sloganeering of how we need to be a peaceful country; of how we need to love thy neighbour when thy neighbour is living on your land; when your neighbour has grabbed from you. That neighbour that you love is only the neighbour who is just to you and, therefore, those neighbours or this national building is about the equity of resources. I keep saying this time and again; that our devolution was never meant to give Governors flags, outriders or whatever other kinds of functional privileges. Our devolution was about resources. Thus, even as we go into this phase of the referendum, it is about money and resources so that we can secure our development at that level and so that we should give as little money as possible to the national level for corruption on grand projects. If we had the right framework of governance and if we had reasonable resources to the counties, I do not think we would have been conceptualizing such mega projects that we know an element of which will feed into the train of corruption. Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to commend this Committee because the person who brought this Motion, Sen. (Dr.) Zani, has been visionary because she, herself, comes from a region that has been disenfranchised and marginalized. I once The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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