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    "id": 890644,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/890644/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13174,
        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
        "slug": "milgo-alice-chepkorir"
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    "content": "In addition to that, I wish to support this Bill by saying that once it has been passed, issues like building capacity of locals will go a long way to assist the local community. As I am speaking right now, in my county, Bomet County, there is a lot of murram being extracted because there are many tarmac roads being constructed in our county right. But then, what has taken place is something that would really affect anyone who would listen to the stories of the people in those particular areas; particularly people living in Chepalungu sub-county, Kapletundo area, areas around Silibwet, and Ndalat where new tarmac roads are being put in place. What happens is that there is a lot of exploitation and illegal contracts are normally used to lure the community into accepting very little pay without any valuable contribution towards what they are really providing for those particular tarmac roads. Once we have this Commission on board, they will be able to assist the community in adding value to the resources that we are going to achieve. There are many other cases where we have seen communities providing water, the same water is channeled very far away from the said community and away from that particular community, this water is added value and therefore, the gains do not get to the particular community. Under Part III, in terms of collection of royalties, the best collector of royalties is the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and this has probably been assigned here. With the KRA brought on board to collect royalties, we may not go wrong because we have seen many royalties being collected but they have never been taken to the right place. Under Clause 8, revenue collected under this Act shall be shared based on some percentages that have been given. While my colleagues were challenging the percentages, I am sure for the first time we will have some figure to use to share revenue. In the past, natural resources have been extracted without sometimes being sent back to the community. In any case, with this particular percentage, I have the feeling that it is the beginning. Maybe as time goes on, we must streamline. While the issue of money being paid to the sovereign wealth is very important, I have some reservations here unless we shall be able to put in place a special policy for proper care for these particular funds. In the past we have had funding like in the case of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) which was supposed to help people in old age but then that had to---"
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