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    "content": "at all reasonable times enter upon any land, licence area, permit area or to any premises for the purposes of inspecting such area, premises or workings. We are now bringing in the issue of inspection because the employees of these companies have been complaining for years about poor working conditions. In this country, we have very good documents but due to bad practices like corruption this has not been the case. So, this new law will a penalty for non-compliance in order to protect our people. Right now, many Kenyans know that they have a right due to the new Constitution. So, they will come out and complain. Indeed, this Mining Bill has penalties and not just penalties for the director but everybody who has been given a position. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we also need to ask ourselves how to ensure that we do not have a conflict between the natural resources law and this Mining Bill. It would be very important to do a comparison so that we can know which ones were left out or which ones need to be merged. In Tanzania, where there is a lot of mining going on, there is a good law that protects the community. That is why the community is able to protect its interests. The communities around the mines are the beneficiaries. If the communities benefit from their resources, they become the watchdogs of the mines and also become friendly to the company that is mining those natural resources. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, last year, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) came to search for the gold saying that they had been taken by a Kenyan. When you listen to the amount that was at stake, you ask what befell us as a country. When you look at DRC and imagine the war and the poverty there, we would hate to see our country going through the same experience. When I look at Turkana, there are now many explorations going on, but we need to consider the local community and not the owners of the land. Apparently, Kenyans are so smart because they bought land so cheaply and will want to benefit as the local community. You will realise that is what we have done and will come again to haunt us. Therefore, we should have a law that protects the local"
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