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    "id": 1030438,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "tea farmer has joined the line of misery that the cane farmer has been standing on. They are all living very badly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when it comes to payment, you know where I come from in Bungoma, now even a farmer who did not go to school knows something called Debit Note (DR). If you ask them how much they earned from their cane delivery, they tell you they got a DR. It means having kept cane in their farms for 30 months, they have delivered to the factory which has given them a debit note; a negative that, in fact, they owe the factory certain amounts. I believe the tea farmers are all nearly getting there. This is shameful, regrettable and something that we should not encourage. This is because farming is what has sustained this economy. We are not an industrialized country. We still have very rudimental manufacturing and are rapidly degenerating into a “supermarket” economy. What we used to produce here such as Colgate and whatever, are now produced in Egypt and then brought put into the supermarkets here. Colgate-Palmolive closed, East Africa Industries closed. Everything is gone. We are now dependent on things produced elsewhere in South Africa, India, Egypt, Algeria and we now just run a “supermarket” economy. We must support our farmer. Since BBI is about three components; policy, legislative and constitutional changes, even if we do not write these crops in the Constitution, we must legislate in the legislative change---"
}