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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "This Bill has also looked at the local content. When you talk of local content, what stage are we talking about? Allow me to give the example of the construction of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). When building the SGR, it could be decided that a number of plumbers be trained. Some politicians might insist that the local content must comprise of people from within the area the SGR is being built. When the SGR moves from there to Naivasha, if you insist that you want to have the local people only, it means the ones who had been trained in Mombasa on the way to Nairobi are going to be jobless. This issue of local content needs to be looked at very carefully. Are we talking about our country, Kenya? Local content means within the nation. For Members’ information, we have 67 blocks of oilfields in Kenya, 37 of which are found within the Lamu belt. The other ones are now found in Turkana, Mandera, Wajir, Nakuru, Elementaita and other parts of Rift Valley. So, if oil is found in Turkana and you decide the engineers you want to train must come from Turkana only and not any other place, what it means is that when you move to Wajir, Mandera or Lamu, they become jobless. These are things that Members will need to discuss when addressing the issue of local content. It is something that affects even banking services. For instance, one would want to know whether there is a bank in the area and whether it is a Kenyan bank or not. More often, when you talk of local content it is the middle men who stand to benefit. They will very likely sub-contract somebody else to do it. We must also be able to think in terms of training and so on."
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