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    "id": 596058,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kedogo",
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        "legal_name": "Dorcas Luvalitsa Kedogo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to welcome Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) from Vihiga County seated at the Speaker’s Gallery. I want to support this Bill which seeks to provide a mechanism of regulation of the upstream petroleum sector. It also sets out the revenue sharing formula between the national Government and the county governments. Twenty per cent is going to the county government, which I think is not enough. It gives the national Government a lot of revenue. We should change so that we can have 20 or 40 per cent for the national Government and the remaining is taken to the counties. There is a ratio for the local community. People have to benefit. The Bill is also very strong on environmental health and safety. Sometimes, pollution occurs unnecessarily and people suffer. It has a clause on environmental health and safety. It has governing laws that the contractor agrees to, so that he or she obeys and abides by all the laws and regulations enforced in Kenya. The Bill provides for training of Kenyans in the petroleum industry matters. Sometimes, you may set up something and yet, people do not know about it. Once they are trained, they will The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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