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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ganya",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
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    "content": "the Office of the President, yet it is a fully-fledged Ministry; it is only that it does not have an enabling law or policy to enable it to realize its full potential. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a very good law and as a Committee, when we were working on this Bill, we made extensive trips to many parts of the country and the world to benchmark and learn how the mining sector thrives. We had a team that went to Australia and another went to Tanzania. We also had consultants who were well versed with the mining industry, and were able to give us examples and good practices from many parts of the world, which we ensured were factored in and were well built into this Bill. We appreciate the amendments of the Senate. In many instances, they added value. For instance, when we debated as a Committee we strongly felt that having a representative from the CoG on the Mineral Rights Board was the right thing to do. This mining is done in counties, on public and community land. We cannot argue that the county governments have no role to play in mining, although technically, mining is within the ambit of the national Government. We felt as the Constitution provides for, it is important for these two levels of Government to work in harmony and collaborate, co-ordinate and co-operate. Through this Bill and some provisions such as the one ensuring that a member of the CoG will sit on the Mineral Rights Board, we felt that, as a requirement of our Constitution, collaboration and co-operation within levels of Government will ensure smooth running of that sector, and smooth running of the business that will be done in the mining industry. We also felt strongly that this Bill comes at the right time. When the law gives the community many powers over their land, they have powers to safeguard their interest through their county governments, the National Land Commission (NLC) and many other aspects of the Constitution. As pastoralist, and being a member of a pastoralist community representing them, I feel that this Bill is coming at the right time; I feel that there are enough safeguards in our Constitution and our laws to ensure good benefits from the minerals that will be discovered in the vast tracts of land that our people occupy. I also felt that a representative from the CoG had to be on the Mineral Rights Board, because being duly elected by the people of those counties, they are better positioned to safeguard and protect their interests than the CS of the Ministry of Devolution and planning, or any other CS. Cabinet Secretaries represent the interests of the Executive, or the national Government, which appoints them. We have also ensured that there is a good and enabling environment provided by this Bill to global investors, who want to invest in our country. Provisions that are in this Constitution are well thought through by both the National Assembly and the Senate, as well as the good practices we learnt, as I said, in Australia and Tanzania, where they have been mining gold and other minerals for quite some time. We also got consultants to ensure that we were informed by good practices elsewhere in the world. In that sense, we tried to tie many ends together to ensure that we had a good law. With those few remarks, I beg to move."
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