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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "collected by county governments is supposed to improve those roads. It is a pity that some counties are now apportioning that money to do their usual funny things, but we must go back there. The cess that they collect from tea farmers is supposed to improve the infrastructure for those roads. When I travelled around Nyeri, the roads around tea farms were good. Secondly, some of us who do not grow tea are supporting this Bill. Please listen to us because Sen. Wambua will bring a Bill about something strategic about Kitui, Meru, Makueni, et cetera, and we would like you to support it. You will be surprised that Mbooni Constituency where I come from grows possibly the best coffee in Kenya. There are eight factories in the village. My grandfather used to grow coffee. My father asked me and made sure that I undertake that coffee which was grown by my grandfather will never uprooted. In fact, where we buried him is surrounded by coffee trees. We are supporting this so that the questions surrounding tea and coffee can also be addressed. The cartels that exist in tea also exist in coffee industry, possibly worse. I went to Stockholm with Members here. We sat in a Starbucks Restaurant. The most expensive coffee was up in the shelves in Starbucks in Switzerland, but yet the farmer here is so poor and miserable. I recently went with Sen. Omogeni to Nyamira County - condolences for the loss of the Governor - at that time, we were questioning him about something else - we happened to be in a tea area. Let me tell you, a person who was disabled was forced to take his tea five kilometres away because the board was quarrelling. We know the problem about tea and coffee; it is the auction. The question that I asked Sen. Cheruiyot this morning was whether or not the auction that is proposed here in Clause 24 by the National Assembly will address the question of the cartels who have invaded tea auction to the detriment of poor miserable farmers. We are also supporting this Bill and I am glad that this has been brought by Sen. Cheruiyot. Even in other discourses that are going to be in the country in the future, there is no law that will be perfect. So, when we come to Sen. Cheruiyot and ask him to support something else, they should remember that we are supporting this not because it is perfect, but because it is the best for now. Mr. Speaker, Sir, what is it? Is this law going to guarantee the small scale farmer what we want? Is it lack of laws that has cause this problem?"
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