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    "id": 687969,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to second this very important report. I would like to congratulate Sen. Moi for his leadership in the Committee in so far as this Bill is concerned. If you heard Sen. Moi speak, you could see the give and take that always ensues when we are dealing with Article 110 of the Constitution. This is what we wanted in our constitutional order. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know what is ahead of us. I debated and made my position clear regarding this Bill in terms of ways of dealing with matters of petroleum. At that time, I talked about my past interactions with the President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, having been his escort of honour three times. He told me something which is very profound. That, for a country like ours, when we are dealing with matters of petroleum, how petroleum can be very divisive and become a matter of a lot of conflict; he recommended to me then that it is important to have a clear legal framework that ensures that everyone in the community where exploration is done must be involved in consultation in the process of exploration and ultimately when getting out the oil. There is no better legislation. There is no country in the region that has prepared itself so well for purposes of exploring, selling, developing and producing oil than our country. It is good because most of the oil that is being discovered is in areas that were initially marginalised, for example, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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