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    "id": 640722,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/640722/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ong’era",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Janet Ongera",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. I join my colleagues in congratulating Sen. Kivuti and the Co- Chairperson, Hon. Amina Abdalla for doing an excellent job in coming up with an agreed document through mediation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we thank you for the efforts you have done in ensuring that we finally get this Bill mediated and our suggestions, as Senators, have actually been taken into account. I am glad to note that in this report, the communities where the exploration of minerals will be done will be beneficiaries. There is no point in communities having a lot of minerals and yet, they are not beneficiaries to it. We do not want unscrupulous foreign mining companies to take all our minerals and assets. What happened in Sierra Leone, which has diamonds, is really a disgrace. Likewise, what happened in the Democratic Republic of Congo should never happen to an African country. The communities in these two countries have been reduced to beggars, yet they have the largest wealth of minerals in Africa. I am happy to note that in this Bill our local communities, who are the custodians of these minerals, will also benefit from what will be explored. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we need to vote in this Bill so that we can finish this issue and do away with it before we go on recess. I beg to support."
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