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    "id": 840262,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "This is a game changer, going forward and it also justifies the reason we need young people in the position of governor. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue of extractive industries, as represented by the able Sen. Cherargei, is really the bane of Africa, where people want to have legislation or regimes that do not clearly outline how resources will be shared. As a result, communities are deprived of their own natural wealth. This has been the case for far too long. It cannot happen that Africa has actually 30 per cent of the world wealth and yet, we remain to be the poorest. The case of this gold mining is a clear testament of what has been happening across the great continent. When we talk about the resource curse, it is not a curse; let us disabuse ourselves of that notion. African people are not cursed. The problem is that we do not have clear- cut legislations, like the ones we have had from Australia, where everybody knows that when there is a contestation as to how resources will be shared, then the legislation takes the supreme role. We had a similar situation with the people of Turkana, and I am very glad that they were able to properly negotiate with the national Government. It cannot follow that out of a profit of Kshs1.2 billion, the only amount of money you can give to poor people is 1 per cent, which only translates to Kshs10 million. What can Kshs10 million do to impoverished people? To add salt to the injury, a situation where you use your financial muscle from the same resources that you have extracted from a people, to even outrightly take away the land that belongs to them, as epitomized by the mzee who came to see us. We need to be serious about this, and I would want to second the call by Sen. Wetangula that we should have Sen. (Dr.) Zani‟s Bill reintroduced. It is a matter of urgency that we protect ourselves from the abuses of people who think that because they can come with pen and paper, they are more intelligent than our fellow Africans and deprive us of our resources, go and develop their home countries and ours is to receive donations in terms of aid and go for debt, which is actually mortgaging our country. I support this Petition."
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