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    "id": 890633,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/890633/?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": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to make my remarks regarding this Bill. I take this opportunity to congratulate Sen. (Dr.) Zani for thinking about Kenyans whom we never think about. More often than not when we talk about natural resources, we think about lining our pockets and what we can get out of them. We do not think about people who have nurtured these resources in respect of--- Maybe God put the resources for their own benefit. Therefore, it is kind and magnanimous for Sen. (Dr.) Zani and her team to have thought of these people and propose to this House to think of a way of ensuring that these people get something out of what God intended them to benefit from. Natural resources can be a major cause of conflict. In fact, if you look at conflict world over, people fight, maim and kill one another because of resources. In any civilized community where there are no regulations and order as to how to sustainably exploit these resources and share them, there is always conflict, death, plunder, slavery and so many vices that we have had this phrase that natural resources become a curse. Madam Temporary Speaker, where I come from in Migori County, we have minerals in vast quantities. I am happy that Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri, my neighbour Senator for Kisii County, proposed that we include minerals when it comes to natural resources in"
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