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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will seek your indulgence to donate a minute to hon. Njomo, after I finish. I want to begin by thanking all the hon. Members who have had five hours and 50 minutes of amendments that we have had to go through. Specifically, I would like to thank hon. Members of my Committee. I do have a quorum and I can move any amendments because of having more than nine of the Members of the Committee until the end. This is our second very technical Bill that we have passed. But more importantly, whereas I come from a background in the conservation sector with hon. Ottichilo, hon. Ganya and many others we did our best. I want to acknowledge the assistance given to us by the Australian Government through the training of seven of our hon. Members by the State University by giving us a constitutional consultant and mining expert. Currently, we are negotiating to have another training programme with the Government of Canada. Therefore, we really would like to thank them. I want to thank the CIC which is very unpopular in this House, but in the mining sector, they shared with us a consultant from Ghana who provided us an African perspective of the Mining Bill. Without his input, we would really have been lost. I want to thank that consultant and CIC for giving us that assistance. After nine months, I am really happy that this Bill has come to day. We are giving this country a regulatory regime that is transparent, accountable and consultative. We are legalizing artisanal mining – you should have seen the artisanal miners who came to us; they were really in a pathetic state. We have achieved the establishment of reconnaissance licences that will allow us to get more information on what we actually own. So, with those many remarks, I want to thank everybody. I want to thank the Speaker and the Clerk of the National Assembly for the assistance they have given us. I am sounding very knowledgeable on mining, but without the assistance provided by Parliament, we would not be this knowledgeable, that is, my Committee members and I. With your indulgence, I would really beg that you allow my internal experts who were trained in Australia to contribute. Hon. ole Kenta and hon. Njomo attended training on mining at University of Western Australia. I beg your indulgence that you allow them to say something."
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