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    "id": 840594,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/840594/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13184,
        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "I come from Isiolo County. I am a daughter of Isiolo County and a daughter of Kenya. Where I come from in Isiolo which is in Kenya, we have a lot of community land that does not get mentioned. In the oil and gas laws of the United States of America (USA), the Indian tribes are mentioned by name with the ownership rights to those resources. It is very clear even before you look into issues of extraction, upstream, midstream or downstream petroleum operations or what have you, you already know the rights of the people. While this Bill has some details about all these things, we do not even know who owns different things prior to extraction and during extraction. We do not talk of issues around common resources that could be drained to another county. For instance, in Northern Kenya, Turkana County may have oil but through drainage and extraction, oil from another county may be drained. So, all these are issues of strategic importance that some of our laws must look at before we look at the digging, extraction and the rest of it. We do not even have anything to do with certain corrective rules, should we have issues. For us as legislators, even without going into the deep details of extraction and the technical aspects of things, we need to know about the ownership, jurisdictional issues and such things like contract leases. I think that has been taken care of quite a bit but what about the regulations and some of the practices that will make sure that we do not go down the oil curse?"
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