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    "id": 1030454,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1030454/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., talked about companies in Dubai that are repackaging our tea. Maybe it is about time that we looked at the role of the Kenya Tea Development Authority (KTDA). We should devolve it and see whether it can find a way out. Maybe it is about time that we now implement the Warehousing Receipt Bill. I think it is already an Act. We should look at the entire agricultural spectrum and our economy and see how best it can serve our people and how our people can benefit so that we can localize agriculture. This business where we all sit here in this House and we know that the Senate is the defender of devolution and we always look at the national Government for guidance, we will not achieve anything. In conclusion, I think it is important that when this Committee sits down to try and figure out what ails this sector, they must also carry out serious statistics. We have very good institutions in this country. The Kenya Bureau of Statistics (KEBS) can give you proper statistics on what each sector in this country produces. When we talk about guaranteed minimum returns, it is the tea that is being sold in Kenya or in the East African Community being maximized before we even look at the outside. Then, the reforms in a proper auction system. If we agree or rather when this Committee finds that the only way that we can achieve progress in this sector is if the entire tea, which is produced, is only sold through that auction and not sold anywhere else. When I travel - I travel quite a lot - you find that companies like Starbucks who have individuals who come and buy tea or coffee directly from us. We even have other counties, for example, when we were in Kirinyaga County during the Devolution Conference, the governor of Kirinyaga talked about marketing her own coffee and tea directly to companies in the United States. When we talk about this, we must be driven by market forces and the rule of supply and demand. That is what will help us. We should keep in mind that most of the land, which is in this country---"
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