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    "id": 999401,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/999401/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wundanyi, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Danson Mwashako",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Danson Mwashako Mwakuwona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to present a Statement regarding mining royalties. Pursuant to Standing Order 44(2)(c), I wish to request for a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources regarding the share of royalties from mining activities of large-scale miners. In the mining activities of large-scale miners, the Mining Act establishes a ratio of sharing royalties of 70:20:10 and the Community Development Agreements (CDAs) Committee as a means to better define and manage relationships and obligations between mining companies and impacted communities. The CDAs play a valuable role in managing expectations of the broad range stakeholders. There has been a push and pull in the development of regulations to operationalise the 70:20:10 share of royalties. The National Treasury and the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining have been blaming each other for the inordinate delay since the passage of the Mining Act of 2016 and the subsequent adoption of the Mining Regulations of 2017. It is disheartening to see a lot of mining activities going on yet the host communities are still underprivileged and have the poorest of infrastructure. The people of the Coast, more so Taita Taveta, Wundanyi Constituency, where I come from, have seen no benefit of the resources God has bestowed on their land. It is on account of this concern and general disappointment of this section of our people that I seek a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources on the following: (i) Could the Committee provide a list of all large-scale mining companies operating in the Coast region and the amount paid by each as royalties since the enactment of the Mining Act, 2016? (ii) Were royalties being paid prior to the Mining Act, 2016 and how much had each company paid by then in the Coast region? Will the community ever get a share of these royalties? (iii) Could the Ministry provide a tabulation of the actual share of royalties in shillings going to the three main beneficiaries as per the Mining Act, namely, 70 per cent to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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