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"content": "this kind of revenue sharing. In Migori County, we have copper, gold and many resources, including water. What we might have exploited to exhaustion is wildlife because we ought to be part of Maasai Mara National Reserve but we have over exploited the wildlife there. We no longer have them. If you go to places like Macalder in Nyatike, Nyatuoro, Minyenya in Rongo, Kuria sub-counties and Masara, you will get vast quantities of minerals. When you quickly look at the quality of life led by our people in those areas, you will be greatly disappointed. You will see, side by side, juxtapose to all these wonderful resources that God gave to these people, abject poverty. You will see mushrooming of slums where there is no water supply and children do not go to school. Day in, day out, you will see conflict. There are faceless people that we do not know who have come to Migori County and they are fencing parcels of land. Quite a number of them have also been victims of violence because the community is also restless. When you see people fencing land that you think is yours and you have been depending on it, you get there, burn their tractors and do quite a number of things. Burning the tractors is a sign of anger. It is also confirmation and an indication that these communities are concerned that they are not benefiting from their natural resources. Madam Temporary Speaker, Sen. (Dr.) Zani is in very good order. In very good spirit, she has introduced a Bill. I hope that all of us in this good House, any other House and the Executive, will buy into this suggestion; that we must put in place a way of sharing the revenue that we get from these natural resources. If you look at this Bill, you will find a few things that we should look at and find a way of dealing with. This Bill talks about giving some responsibility to the CRA. Some of the responsibilities that have been proposed to be assigned to the CRA are in order, particularly when it comes to sharing of revenue. If you look at Article 216 of Constitution that confers that mandate to that Commission, those responsibilities in so far as revenue sharing or allocation are in order. However, if you quickly look at Clause 5(d) (f), (g), (i), (k), (m), (n), (o) and (p), – in my legal mind – these are activities beyond what the Constitution had designed the CRA to deal with. So, I propose to Sen. (Dr.) Zani to think of another institutional framework that might be put instead of trying to over-expand the mandate of this Commission so that there is an institutional framework to oversee and implement the responsibilities that are required here. Madam Temporary Speaker, as Sen. (Dr.) Zani thinks about this, it should also be thought of that we have 47 governments. These activities will be county centred. If it is determination of how much revenue is derived from these activities, that body that determines must be found in those counties. If it is enforcing agreements, the enforcing agencies must be found in those counties. So, the framework for implementation and overseeing proposition of responsibilities that are beyond the mandate of CRA should have in mind the kind of constitutional super structure that we have. If we do so, we can have a smooth implementation of what we have here."
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