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    "id": 890554,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "I will talk about a few clauses so that I allow other colleagues time to speak to this Bill. Clause 5(1) has elaborated the functions of the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA). Clause 5(1)(a) states that the Commission shall;- ‘Co-ordinate the preparation of benefit sharing agreements between an affected county and an affected entity;’ In the Mining Act, there is an aspect of Community Development Agreement (CDA) which has not been fully exploited. This CDA is restrictive because when you have a mining permit, the law does not obligate you to sign a CDA but when you have a mining licence, the law allows you to sign a CDA. When you look at the composition of the CDA in terms of resource sharing through the Bill that was passed the other day, 70 per cent goes to the national Government, 20 per cent goes to the county government and the communities get 10 per cent. This Bill elaborates these issues unlike in the case of the CDA agreement. The Mining Act gave more power to the exploiter because they were the ones to decide on how the CDA committees were to be composed. With this Bill, we will have a"
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