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    "id": 1030452,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, when you look at the Constitution, you will also realize that agriculture is devolved. This Senate has stood firmly to protect devolution. This Senate, last year, passed a legislation that encourages warehousing through the Warehousing Receipt Bill. What we ought to be talking about now is how to ensure that our county governments - agriculture is a devolved function - sit down, the County Executive Committees (CECs) Members in charge of trade or agriculture find a way to promote and help these tea farmers instead of us lamenting. One of the biggest problems that I see and I thank the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Agriculture, hon. Munya is, he said that instead of us talking about all these issues, let us find what the problem is. He pointed out to one particular area. It is the outdated auction system. This auction system is so porous. It allows people to sell their own tea outside the country such that there is no way you can control and tell how much of the tea foreign income we get in this country. Maybe we get more that Kshs211 billion. There is a lot of direct sales. Madam Deputy Speaker, instead of this House always passing everything to the national Government, it is important for us to say that agriculture is devolved and begin to focus on legislation. When we focus on legislation, we must begin to ensure that what is devolved is fully devolved so that our farmers can benefit. 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."
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