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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mositet",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Korinko Mositet",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Let it be on record that I wish all women in this country who will contest for the senatorial seat the very best, including the Member of the National Assembly who was doubting the maturity of the Senators. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with all due respect, it is clear that we have come up with quite a number of Bills in this Senate and they have found their way to the National Assembly. I was a Member of the ad hoc Committee which was headed by Sen. Zani. We did a good job knowing very well that the counties have been suffering a lot with regard to minerals. Today it was even very sad to see Mr. Kinuthia wa Mwangi, the Chairman of the Transition Authority (TA) trying to caution the Governor of Kwale and Kwale County that they should not be talking about the minerals in the county. He said that they should not even include it in the Finance Bill of the county because it a national Government function. Let him know that he is very wrong and completely out of order. The titanium which is mined there, is just like sand in many other counties. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, every county has a special mineral which they can boast of. My own county has a lot of minerals. In fact, cement cannot be manufactured without making use of the raw materials found in Kajiado. However, our county gets very little from the exploitation of those raw materials. Of course, we have salt in Magadi. In fact, we have oil reserves. It is only that announcements have not been done. At least from the explorations which have been ongoing, we know that we also have oil. Many other counties have these natural resources. Therefore, it will really be wrong for the Mining Bill to be assented to by His Excellency without passing through this House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is our belief that our President would not want to be ashamed. The best that the Speaker of the National Assembly could do now is to apologize to the whole nation and reverse all those Bills. He could even request if they could be taken back, because whatever he has done is a big concern to the nation. He has actually breached the Constitution. We need to remind him that even though maybe he remembers the days when he was a Member of the National Assembly, the Constitution changed and power was devolved. Just the way we are talking about the benefits of the functions which have been devolved to the counties, power was also devolved. That is why he cannot just do what he has been doing without consulting our Speaker when the Bills are taken to him. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on behalf of my beloved people of Kajiado, I support this Motion."
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