{"id":1036284,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1036284/?format=json","text_counter":1336,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Tinderet, JP","speaker_title":"Hon. Julius Melly","speaker":{"id":12849,"legal_name":"Julius Kipbiwot Melly","slug":"julius-kipbiwot-melly"},"content":" Thank you, Chairperson. In the Committee, we actually discussed this exhaustively. One of the reasons is to protect the local tea industry. This is the section that is going to protect that sector. The funds that are going to be here... If we allow cheap imported tea and blend it with the local ones, by the end of the day, we will not protect our markets."}