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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Moi",
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        "legal_name": "Kipruto Moi",
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    "content": "Local communities and county governments are very important. If we were to have a harmonious and peaceful country, our people must be made to feel that they are part of these projects. We need to enhance ownership of these projects by involving county governments and local communities. We also need to diversify this energy mix. We need to reduce over-reliance on these finite resources, create and increase the local capacity so that we can reduce foreign labour in the energy sector especially in the petroleum sector. We do not have too many of our people there. So, we need to increase that capacity to reduce the domination of labour in that sector. We need to fully exploit clean and renewable energy sources that are locally available such as geothermal power. Revenues resulting from all these could be shared out to the various stakeholders such as county governments and local communities to prevent discontent and civil strife. This has happened in many African countries such as Nigeria. My constituency is also a prime example because that is the headquarters of the Geothermal Development Company (GDC). Initially, when GDC came to Rongai, people had high hopes. They thought that it would mean employment, cheap power and many things through corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the entire good things that we associate with these kinds of companies, but it was not to be. The GDC was controlled from Nairobi. Employment opportunities had not been accorded at that time. There is a new regime in GDC, but initially, employment opportunities for the people of Rongai were not there. Corporate social responsibility was non-existent and the relations between GDC and the people of Rongai was at an all-time low. These are the things that we need to correct and I hope this Bill will change all that. With those few remarks, I thank you and support the Bill."
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