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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is one last point that I want to make regarding community land. There is a lot of extraction of minerals from land, including land itself. The extraction of land to make bricks, for example, is causing an environmental disaster in rural areas. Land is the home of minerals. So, if land itself is being mined to make other things, it should also be treated as a mineral because it is a very useful substance being used for production of other things. Therefore, in protection of the environment, the extraction of minerals from land, especially in communities which are so vulnerable to capital and not properly protected by established institutions like the NLC--- This Senate and the National Assembly should be extremely vigilant on how this law will be implemented. To me, the appeal process or the redress process when this law is not implemented seems to be Cabinet Secretaries-centred. What is the recourse in the event that this law is violated? Maybe, I am not quite observant, but I did not see any reference to an institution, except the ordinary courts of law. I do not know whether we have such bodies like the national minerals commission or the national minerals authority in this country. If there is, it should be cause for worry because if this Bill is not properly implemented and there is no recourse or appeal process that is vigilant, what will happen because I am very skeptical of the NLC. Like any other established commission in this country, at the moment, it has fallen into the decay of corruption that is eating every national institution in this country. It is not really functioning in the interest of the ordinary mwananchi that will be affected by this law, especially in communities with regard to Article 38 of the Constitution."
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