Dr. Agnes Zani

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• 26 Mar 2019 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 26 Mar 2019 in Senate: because this generation is holding these natural resources on behalf of the generations that will come. It is very critical that, that particular fund is able to control the necessity in terms of the allocation. When moving clause to clause, I will also explain how the other allocations will be done. view
• 26 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, last but not least, another very important structure and facet of this Bill is to ensure that at the end of the day, clear offences have been put into place. If we look at the Bill, we find that this provision for penalty is quite strict, going up to almost Kshs5 million or three-years jail term, just to ensure that people benefit across the board. view
• 26 Mar 2019 in Senate: The Bill has a total of six parts. The first one gives the functions of the CRA in detail. The second gives the collection of the royalties and the fees. It gives specific responsibilities to the KRA to collect the royalties. Clause 8 gives the revenue sharing ration. We then have the Benefit Sharing Agreement, where we have the specific organs that are created, such as the County Benefit Sharing Committee; the functions and approval they have to give. Lastly, we have the Local Community Benefit Sharing Forum and the financial obligations. view
• 26 Mar 2019 in Senate: We do not want to have a situation where this money gets into a particular kitty and then there is confusion. I was talking to some people recently and they asked me, for example, where the money that should be divided as provided for in other Bills goes to? When the money has been collected by KRA, for example, where do they put it, because before it is divided, it needs to be put in a particular place? The natural resources royalties fund is the organ created for ensuring that the money can go into one place. The last one ... view
• 26 Mar 2019 in Senate: Clause 5 highlights the functions of the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) which will include promoting value addition to the natural resources from a particular county and how they can be exchanged for better income generation. For example, in Kwale, we have Titanium but people are always complaining. We found out that the same situation is in Uasin Gishu when we went to get facts about Fluorspar. Local people feel that they are not being given jobs and if they are, then they are not managerial jobs. view
• 26 Mar 2019 in Senate: The work of the CRA in terms of being the overseeing body will be critical. This is because we will have two committees at the county level. These are the County Benefit Sharing Committee and the Local Benefit Sharing Forum, and the two will be coordinated on the ground. view
• 26 Mar 2019 in Senate: In these committees, we have tried as much as possible to have people who, to a large extent, will be on the ground. The Local Benefit Sharing Committee will be at the ward level where a particular resource is. view
• 26 Mar 2019 in Senate: The CRA will also facilitate and monitor the implementation of benefit sharing agreement. As much as a formula is provided in terms of apportioning, there has to be people on the ground to monitor exactly what will be received from the natural resources and how they will be divided upwards and downwards. view
• 26 Mar 2019 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view