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    "id": 1042275,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1042275/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, yours faithfully is sponsoring a Bill in this Senate, the Dengu Bill. One of the things that we need to do is to expand the food basket in this country. We must stop the conversation that certain regions in this country are food baskets to feed our people. Let us weave more food baskets in other regions to ensure that we give benefit to farmers across this country. We have farmers in some countries who live like kings and they are treated with dignity and are given express passes in train stations and supermarkets. The principle is that they should go back home and till the land and feed their people. We must begin that conversation in this country. We must all agree that the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) has miserably failed the regulation of crop chains in this country. We must unpack AFA and make sure we go to specific directorates for specific food chains. That way, we shall be able to focus our attention properly on crops and identify the needs and desperation of farmers who deal with certain crops in this country. I urge Members that for now and through these amendments, let us be seen to be speaking the voice of the tea farmer in this country. Let us support these amendments and if there would be need to do further amendments, to include other things, that can be done later. However, for now, I support the amendments to the Tea Bill and ask my colleagues to support them. I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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