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    "content": "will be sitting as old men watching our children fight for resources and regret why we never said that Commissions under this Constitution cannot share power with Cabinet Secretaries. I want to conclude my contribution by speaking to the Mining Bill. The Mining Bill, for God’s sake, concerns counties just like the Marriage Bill which did not pass here. I come from a place called Kakamega. The first multi-national to do mining in Kakamega was the Rosta Mine Company. There is so much gold in Kakamega that three days ago, when I was away on domestic matters, I found that during the recarpeting of the Kakamega-Kisumu Road---. The recarpeting has gone up to Museno in Kakamega and when the earthmover got there and scrapped the ground because they are widening the ground, gold came out pwaah and the entire village came out to witness. People were collecting gold. They were running to Malinya from Museno and selling an ounce for Kshs300. You can imagine a man who had a fingertip of gold. He was walking away with Kshs200,000 or Kshs300,000 just like that. Today as I speak, the Administration Police (AP) came there. My presence notwithstanding, we were chased away in the Kapedo style. The movers came and covered the place. This was pure gold. How can you expect me to keep quiet and accept that we kill devolution when for 50 years after independence, we have not allowed Kakamega to exploit the riches that it has; pure gold? I want to go down in history in this country as a legislator who said that the 1965 Sessional Paper was a mistake; a legislator who came in this House and participated in creation of CDF, a legislator who presided over Kshs594 million spread in my hands for the tenure I was in Parliament and not a single cent lined my pocket; a legislator who participated in enacting the new Constitution and it must succeed. I beg to support."
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