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    "id": 840493,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/840493/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
        "slug": "kipchumba-murkomen"
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was trying to say that Section 7 provides for that local trust fund. If Sen. (Dr.) Zani can remember, this is exactly the provision we were trying to push in the Mining Act and the Local Revenue Sharing Bill that we tried to develop in the Committee that we sat in together. We must have a local community that will have a trust fund. This law confines this trust fund within the ward where that oil production is found. However, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are challenges, because sometimes resources will be found in a boundary between one ward and the other. More importantly, these resources can be found between a ward which is a boundary between one county to the other. These are the issues that we must grapple with, as we go forward, and find out how these issues can be dealt with. I know that Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. has a Bill that deals with the issue of county boundaries. A part of the reason why we have an escalation of boundary disputes is because you will find a very docile barren land where nobody is bothered about where the boundary is passing until the day you are told there are gold or oil deposits there. That is when you now have one county fighting with another. This is because 20 per cent of the benefits that will come to that county means that it will ensure that, that county is self-sufficient. I really hope that Elgeyo Marakwet gets oil and in larger deposits than any other county in the Republic of Kenya. I know that such a prayer is not a fair prayer but---"
}