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    "id": 656733,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ekomwa",
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        "legal_name": "James Lomenen Ekomwa",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman for this opportunity. I think this is why I am in this Parliament and I support this amendment. First, those provisions are ambiguous. We are only saying ten per cent of the revenue collected from the oil and not what has been discovered from the whole nation. So, it has no connection. Secondly, people should understand that oil is not only found in Turkana. It is in almost every part of Kenya. So, the rules you are putting here will solve our problems. Those who say that the ten per cent to the community is too much ought to understand that those communities have been marginalised for so long. They have been having too many problems and we have not pitied them. This is their only time that is God given and they must get that opportunity. There is no other time. People must understand that there is rampant corruption. The money that we are getting--- We do not trust whether whatever will remain in the national Government will reach that community. We do not trust whether whatever will go to the county will reach the community. We are here representing the community as Members of Parliament (MP) and we trust the ten per cent or whatever is given to the community. That is why we are here and so we support that amendment."
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