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    "id": 806340,
    "url": "http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/806340/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 646,
        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "I want to support the discussions and the two statements brought by my colleagues here. This is the time to escalate this discussion to a national level and at a policy level. I say this because the whole agricultural sector is under capture by the so called cartels. The last two weeks were dominated permanently by the debate on cartels that had bankrupted the entire section of maize farmers. The Cabinet Secretary was in the National Assembly saying that a few individuals, who are in that cartel, were paid more than three quarters of money that was set aside to pay all the farmers. We are now speaking about cartels in the sugar industry. Last week but one, you allowed the Committee on Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries to go and debate the coffee sector, which also affects my people. The discussion was about how to free coffee farmers from the capture of brokers. The tea farmers in my own county are captives of brokers. The debate we should be having now is what the Government policy at the national level on farmers is. It is important that, as we ask that question, we also say that the lower bracket of Kenyans comprises farmers. Is that the reason most cartels find it easier to raid that particular sector? As I finalise, unless we review our position on policy. I want to remember---"
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