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    "content": "But having said so, I congratulate him on a job well done. He has done a lot of justice in terms of this Bill and adding value to this Bill. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the most important thing in this Bill is not how many licences we will give to whoever; it is not even the setting up of a State Corporation to do mining; it is on how we treat the communities and the benefits the communities where those minerals are found will get. Exploitative tendencies has destroyed mining operations and shattered prospects of a thriving society, where minerals are found. I speak with authority because in my previous life, I used to be a professor of international law. In my consultancy work, I used to travel around the world – and that explains why I rarely travel these days – because I travelled around the world from Brazil to India, to Madagascar, to Helsinki, to Calgary in Canada, to Hanoi; I went to all the places in this world; not to mention Costa Rica and other strange places like Paraguay and Cape Town. One of the things that kept cropping up is that the success of the mining industry in a country rests on benefit sharing and how communities where minerals are found benefit from the wealth created. So, it was a bit strange when there were attempts by some forces to try and smuggle this Bill without reference to this House."
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