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    "content": "the dust during excavation and the mining process. Therefore, they must be protected from some of those health hazards. There will be need to look at the wider community around Ngamia I and the entire Turkana County. In my county, gold mining is being done in a place called Chemase. The local communities in the area need to have a greater benefit, maybe better than ourselves who are living further away. In working out that benefit-sharing agreement, we need to consider those communities living very close to these areas. The component of the Government of Kenya being one of the investors within this sector is an excellent one. I know there has been a push towards privatization and that explains the process we are taking with the tea industry and the sugar cane sector. However, mining is one of the critical and sensitive sectors for us to just to leave it to the private investors. The component of national Government or the country investing in that sector is an excellent provision that we need to consider so that we maximize benefits accruing from some of these natural minerals and natural resources that this country is endowed with. I congratulate the Mover of this Bill and the Senate Majority Leader for being consistent in ensuring that this Bill finds its way to the Senate. When the Senate Majority Leader moved this Bill, he took a bigger share of that glory. Some of us were cheerleaders and we urged him on as he gave the assurances that he had talked with the President, Deputy President and the Government in general and that that Bill was going to come. We need to appreciate the Senate Majority Leader because he delivered. It is unfortunate that the Members of the other side of the House are nowhere to be seen when we are discussing serious issues affecting their own counties. This is one of the Bills that we needed to pull in the same direction. With all those remarks, I support this Bill."
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