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    "content": "raided out of office by wananchi. When wananchi get tired, nothing will stop them. When we want to make a law for posterity, we should not look at the immediate gains. After recess, I will go to the Committee to argue my case when the Bill goes there after this debate. I will do that because I believe that this is a good law coiled in mischief. People are already sharing national resources and there are those who are being given contracts to own geothermal power plants. How can an individual be called local content? It does not make sense. The Kenyan beneficiary and how they benefit must be rationalized, particularly the people in the counties. You will remember the law on minerals that was moved by Sen. (Dr.) Zani. We said that a percentage will go to the community that has looked after this mineral even without knowing that it was there because they were the custodians of that land. A certain percentage will go to the county government while another percentage will go to the national government because they must have revenue for running their affairs. The investor will then get the rest. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Moscow has the highest concentration of dollar billionaires than anywhere else in the world. This is because when communism collapsed, they passed a law like this where every public servant became a local content. President Mikhail Gorbachev and his friends would sit at dinner and share public facilities. They would say we chukua hiyo na wewe chukua hii . All those oligarchs buying teams like Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea, is worth a trillion dollars yet there is no evidence that he has ever worked anywhere. He was just a friend of President Mikhail Gorbachev. We should not create that in this country. We should not have a situation where people just sit in offices and leave every evening carrying a briefcase full of money yet they have done nothing. That is how inflation is fuelled. I saw a social media clip where the President, his Deputy, and two other people donated Kshs80 million in cash to a church in one afternoon. Those are the local content. We should not do that to our country. The law we are passing today is the law that will stop the Deputy President, William Ruto, and all his crooks who have found their way in the public office from stealing. Somebody once said that we do not have governors who are thieves; instead, we have thieves who have found their way into the governor’s office. They are already taking the country as this law is being discussed here. As the Senator for Kajiado, you will be shouting from the periphery yet you know the real oligarchs who are raping your county. I want this Committee to be changed into a public corporation which must represent all shades of interest with little limited control by the Executive. That is the only way. We have public commissions such as the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) which enjoy independence yet it is not in the Constitution. The people who run it are not doing a good job but they have enormous powers and independence. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Clause 7 states that the Committee will be set while Clause 8 states that the Committee will ensure measurable and continuous growth in the development and adoption of local content with respect to all activities in extractive industry. Again, poorly managed, a law like this can wreak havoc to the economy. In Zimbabwe, the octogenarian President, Robert Mugabe, decreed that no foreigner can form or register a company in Zimbabwe without a local owning 51 per cent. He then 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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