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    "id": 890640,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13174,
        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "Thank you Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this chance to also add my voice. First of all I wish to thank Sen (Dr.) Zani for coming up with such a very important Bill, more particularly a Bill that speaks to the issue of natural resources. I wish to support this Bill because of the fact that this is going to provide a framework to enforce the systems that are already in place. While we have Article 69(1)(a) and (h) read together with Article 174(g) states that- “The State shall ensure that there is sustainable exploitation and utilisation and management of natural resources as well as equitable sharing of resources.” This means that these Articles need to be operationalised. Through this very important Bill we shall have these two Articles operationalised. In addition to that one, as one Senator said, we have a lot of legislations in our country, but the major challenge is the issue of implementation. A major challenge that we have been experiencing particularly on issues of natural resources as you saw the other time with the Turkana case and even others that have gone unreported, is the issue of exploiting natural resources from particular communities while the people who should have actually benefited are living in deplorable conditions. I wish to say right now that this Bill has come at the right time particularly because of the two tiers of government and this will go a long way to bring on board the community where these particular resources are. I support this Bill because of the fact that it is already assigning a number of people that are going to look into the issue of sharing revenue. I support the fact the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) has been brought on board because this is a Commission that is well versed with issues of revenue allocation. Despite the fact that the CRA already has a lot of work, they are able to bring on board, or in this case to decide on formulas that will assist in terms of assigning what will go to the National Government, the county and the community."
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