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    "id": 861075,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/861075/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 347,
        "legal_name": "Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, there are some aspects of this Bill that I thought and will persuade my brother, Sen. Moi, to look at. If you look at the definition given to local company or content, you will find that it is covering the entire Nation. If we are to contextualize that and look at regions where oil and gas is found, for instance in Turkana, we need to have affirmative action or take a step in the right direction to ensure that we also protect the Turkana community or any other community from other locally empowered investors. This is because when you go to a place like Nyatike, in Migori County, and discover that there is gold and copper; and then you find out that the people there do not have the requisite technology and resources and as a Kenyan – because the Bill talks about matters that are nationally Kenyan – you pair up with a company, for instance from China to go and exploit the residents of the area. Yes, you will be a local person who is a local to Kenya, but in terms of doing justice to a County like Turkana, Nyatike, or a sub county like Kuria, where you find such minerals, you will not have done justice because you will still have contributed to the social and economic gap that we are trying to narrow when it comes to wealthy and poor Kenyans."
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