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    "content": "We are creating employment and industries if counties are well run. A tea factory only costs Kshs400 million to put up, what will stop Pokot County from putting up their own tea factory? A cement plant costs Kshs1 billion to put up, what will stop them from putting up one and growing it? A sugar factory can be put up at Kshs2 billion and it takes three years to mutate it to production. What would stop them from putting up one? That is what the Senators are doing. Nairobi is built on the sand from Makueni County, but how much does Makueni County earn from that sand? That is what the Senate is supposed to look at. That is the resource or the mine we are talking about. The mine of Makueni County is the sand in Athi River. Can anybody tell you that that is the work of the national Government? Unless you have taken leave of your senses! Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are many more things to say, but this Motion is probably the most important debate we have had on the Floor of this House given the challenges that we have. It is the most important resolution this House is going to make given the stormy and cloudy future we are looking at. Woe unto us if we become like an ostrich that sees a raging fire coming and dips its head in the sand thinking the body is safe. It will never be. The fire will ravage and go with you. I want to urge Senators to know that the catalyst, spark or the trigger for this; chepe in Kiswahili, is the Mining Bill and each one of you has some resources in your county. Mines are not about gold and uranium. The sand of Athi River is the most important mines of Makueni County. The salt in your county is the most important mine in your county. Do you want to tell me that the salt in your county is controlled from Nairobi? I would like to inform Sen. G.G. Kariuki that those salt leeks that the elephants come to leak in your county are your mines. Do you want them to be controlled from Nairobi? The caves of Mt. Elgon where elephants go in to breed are our mines. Do you want them to be controlled from Nairobi? The Senator from Taita-Taveta should know that the Mzima Springs are their mines. Do you want them to be controlled from Nairobi? You have to stand up to be counted. I would like to inform you that the lizard that fell from the Iroko tree in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart looked aside, looked everywhere and nobody was clapping for it, it clapped for itself."
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