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    "id": 1042395,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ndwiga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njeru Ndwiga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. It is apparent that all the Senators are overwhelmingly supporting this Bill. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we go to voting for the Bill, and because we are going to pass this Bill today, I wish to appeal to the Ministry of Agriculture, as they constitute the Tea Board, they must learn from history that the Coffee Board of Kenya is the one the that virtually killed coffee in this country. How? The members of that Board were also players in the coffee sector. They were traders in the sector. I am appealing that whoever we appoint in the Tea Board must be persons above reproach. They must be persons who are passionate about tea and who will take the concerns of tea farmers at heart. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also wish to address the various stakeholders who feel that they are unsatisfied with the Bill. I know that you have received several Petitions so far. I am hoping that you will assign those Petitions to relevant Committees. The ones that will come to my Committee, I can assure the House that we will deal with them expeditiously. I am, therefore, appealing to all those stakeholders who feel affected by this Bill and who are currently before the courts of law, I want to ask them to trust this House to deal with their concerns expeditiously. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I hope that all the Petitions which land on your desk, that you will allocate them even during this recess. We will look at them and concerns of various stakeholders. They are many. It is their right to be properly accommodated in the Bill. I think we should accommodate them in one way or another. For instance, in furtherance of the tea sector, we cannot ignore county governments. Agriculture being a devolved function, we have to work jointly with them. My Committee had a session with the Council of Governors (CoG). We met in Mombasa. We raised several issues with them. They also raised several issues, which we intend, at a later point, to bring to this House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I read somewhere in one of these newspapers that my Committee was meeting with the CoG to discuss this Bill. There cannot be anything"
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