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    "content": "and make sure that the local content is provided. The local content development committee will ensure that there is monitoring, so that goods and services are provided in an orderly manner and the locals will have equal rights to access opportunities. Some projects involve skills which were not within our education system before. For example, petroleum, wind and solar industries are new in the country. It should be the responsibility of the extractor to develop capacity of the community by training students in those fields, so that they can take over the running of those projects or develop community-based projects based on the acquired skill. We need to pass a legislation on this. We should not leave our people at the whims of foreigners who in most cases do not have any goodwill. We have seen cases where foreigners come, go round our systems and grab our land. When they are asked about it, they say that the indigenous people do not have legal rights; they only have grazing rights. They will even define who an indigenous person is and the rights they have in their ancestral land. We cannot rely on the goodwill of such kind of people. They are pure capitalist who are only interested in the money. If we have this kind of law, we will safeguard the rights of our people. Much as we encourage extraction or exploitation of our resources for the development in our country, it must not be at the infringement of the rights of our people, their land or opportunities. In most cases, these extractions take place in marginalized areas. However, outsiders think that any Kenya can provide the local content and the marginalised end up being further marginalized. We talk about the Equalization Fund because we have accepted that we have marginalized parts of our country. We should have checks and balances in this system to ensure that the first local content is from the immediate community, so that they do not continue to be marginalized. More often than not, multinationals come through the relevant Government departments stationed in Nairobi where the jobs will be shared.Therefore, the local people will not be represented because any other Kenyan can provide the local content. There must be a way to give priority to the immediate community, the county and the rest of the Kenyans so that the local people benefit first. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what Sen. Wetangula raised in terms of the administration needs to be taken into account because it is where we normally lose most of these legislations. We legislate and at the end of the day, a lot of bureaucracy is introduced and the locals are technically locked out using the law. We need to look at the kind of administrative structure that we will put in this law, so that the locals are not technically locked out by giving powers to the Executive to decide everything in Nairobi. This will prevent people to come to the ground cleared and with approved local content plans. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to end by thanking the Mover of this Bill. I hope that the necessary concerns will be taken into account to widen the bracket in terms of the extractives, other resources and the administrations. I also hope that this will go a long way to make sure that our resources are not just exploited and we are left with nothing to show for them. We have to learn from history. Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa, but the communities which are found in areas where that oil is found live in worse conditions compared to those in other parts of the country. Most of them are busy fighting. We do 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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