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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ochillo-Ayacko",
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        "legal_name": "Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko",
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    "content": "are people who are likely to develop such exploitative local abilities and would, therefore, defeat the desire for this Bill to transfer skills to the local people. Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, I also want to thank the Senator for ensuring that this Bill has the component of sustainability. We are gifted or given resources by God, as our provider, and if you look at the Bible, Genesis 1:28 directed us to this. That is the first commandment which God gave us, which is to multiply, fill the world, and conquer it. In my view, we should manage this process in a sustainable way. Managing the environment sustainably is key because it is something that we have also put in our Constitution. We are aware that as we extract these minerals, there is a lot of degradation, wastage and, consequently, most of these minerals get exhausted. Once this happens, the people, their children the other generations after them who will come after us must find a place that was also created and gifted to them by God. We should not assume that we are the last creatures that were given that commandment by God. Therefore, as we use technology to exploit these resources for the benefit of the current humanity, we must be mindful of the fact that God continues to give life through our mothers and sisters, who give life to future generations. These future generations are also entitled in the same way that we are, to have a good environment, resources and to continue to live the same way that we are also living. Therefore, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a good Bill, and I would like to support it in its entirety. I also want to propose that other sectors – not necessarily the energy sector where we have natural resources that are gifted to us by God – should have a similar Bill, policy and principle which promotes the transfer of skills and empowerment to the local people. Other multinationals or global companies should try to assist or partner with us in making these resources of monetary or economic use to us. With those many remarks, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank the Mover of this Motion and encourage him to continue moving more Motions and, probably, look for better things."
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