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    "id": 1042290,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1042290/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "these organizations that do not grow even a single crop of tea. It is the same with maize and coffee. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will tell you and you know from where you come from that one of the biggest causes of poverty in the Western region is maize farming. We need radical leadership to address the root cause of these issues. Many times, we are just like cashiers. I know that because I farm maize in Kitale. Throughout the year, you put money and at the end of the year, what you get cannot relate to it. Look at sugarcane farming; it is a big cause of poverty. The most fertile part of this country is Western, but all those farmers are extremely poor. Unless somebody actually tells us what we need to do properly or we as leaders say the truth. Why do we have to farm sugarcane the way we do in Western yet a farmer in Brazil will farm his sugarcane, sugar will leave there, it will come to the port of Mombasa, they will pay whatever taxes they pay and it comes all the way to the gate of Mumias and is cheaper than the sugar equivalent to a kilogram from Mumias right there? These are radical questions that must be answered because we cannot do the same thing, the same way, over years and expect different results. That is the definition of madness. I hope as we pass this Bill, we shall also have a radical view at all the other crops and agriculture as a sector towards these radical questions and transform it, but ultimately in our mind the common mwananchi, the small holder farmer. Later, we can deal with the middle men and the cartels."
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