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    "id": 1045058,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1045058/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
        "slug": "enoch-kiio-wambua"
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    "content": "Another important responsibility for the county government through the CECM is to market ndengu produced in the respective county, both locally and at the international level. You remember that sometime last year this Senate debated and passed The Warehousing Bill. Some of the Bills we are passing on the Floor of this House are not idle Bills. Riding on the passage of the Bill, county governments take control of warehousing and facilitate farmers to form farmers’ cooperative societies for ndengu, which is then collected and stored in the warehouse, where the county government is responsible and answerable to the cooperatives. Through this Act, we will cut the middleman to make sure they do not have a direct link with an individual farmer. If they want to buy ndengu for export from Kitui, they go to the warehouse and buy it from there. The county government will have capacity to negotiate a better price for farmers and they will be protected. This Bill looked at against others, will help us to make a move in the right direction. The county government is required under the Act to promote the circulation and access to timely market information by growers, hence avoiding a situation, as I mentioned, where farmers are told to grow maize in anticipation of selling to an unknown buyer some place outside this country. For our case in Kitui, it was India. Then"
}