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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "There is also protection and disclosure of information to third parties that are related to agreements with investors in the sector. There are also very important provisions in so far as local content is concerned. The Bill provides for a framework for local content on matters to do with training. Any external contractor or person, who has been made a contractor in an area where there is oil, must ensure that he gives priority to service providers and goods that are produced in the local area. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it also gives priority to goods that are manufactured in the local area. This encourages establishment of factories and manufacturing plants in areas where oil is established. This can be done and it does not have to be that the national Government must ensure that there are factories. For example, if it is Makueni County, priority could be given to the milk that is being produced in a factory established by the people there, through the County Government of Makueni. Again, Makueni County is processing tomatoes and so on. This will encourage counties, local investors and communities. In Elgeyo-Marakwet County, we have a mango processing plant that has been established by the Kerio Valley Development Authority (KVDA). This is one of the few parastatals whose headquarters are out of Nairobi City County. The headquarters is in this town. They have done a good job and established a mango processing plant in a place called Tot in Kerio Valley. Some of those factories must be given priority. It also includes providing a training fund to provide capacity building and training to local people, Kenyans, and local institutions. All these are requirements for the contractors who are going to deal with petroleum exploration. The other very important provision is in Section 7, which was negotiated such that the national Government actually sat on this Bill for over a year. Finally, after protracted negotiations, the President ceded to Section 7 in so far as what the people of Turkana deserved. We must always acknowledge the pioneers of this negotiation; the county leadership of Turkana took it upon themselves to take care of this Section 7. It was almost impossible that the national Government would cede up to 25 per cent of resources and benefits to the local community because of the history and the tradition of the issue. I was in that negotiation and it was not easy. However, the County Government of Turkana stood their ground and Section 7, which provides that the county government shall get a share of 20 per cent of the national Government share of the benefits or resources that come from the petroleum products was agreed on. Secondly, it states that there will be a local community with a trust fund which will get five per cent. If Senator--- Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg for your indulgence; I did not think that 20 minutes was going to be very--- You can see the Bill for yourself and you have--- 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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