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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I want to join my colleagues in registering my compliments to the Chair of the Committee, Sen. (Dr.) Zani, and her entire team for this great Report. I want to assure her that if she manages to push this Motion through and do further consultations, this might very well be the biggest contribution that she might ever make to the economy of this country in her entire life, because this is very important. I am glad to note that in this Report, in the executive summary, the Committee tells us that during their visits, they observed that most communities living in counties with natural resources were not in any way benefiting from the exploitation of those resources. In fact, they found that members were living in abject poverty, despite the counties being endowed with those natural resources, this, being the state of affairs of what successive governments have been doing by way of imagination in terms of unlocking the mineral resource potential of this country. I also notice that the Committee was able to sample nine counties where they paid visits. I want to disagree with them. They should have found time to visit all the 47 counties because there is no single county in this country that has no resource that we cannot wish to develop using legislation of this House. I can tell them, for example, that when you look at all these counties, you left out all the counties of the former Nyanza Province and the former Western Province. In fact, we know for a fact that in certain counties in Western Kenya, for example, Kakamega and Migori, these are serious mineral resource counties. The case of Migori is straight forward because in Migori up to now, we still have locals prospecting for gold. It is just that these people do not have the 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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