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    "id": 1046250,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1046250/?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. Temporary Speaker, Sir, because I am replying to my Bill, I would not want to say a lot of things on the willing buyer willing seller principle. I can just confirm to you because I am a friend of Sen. Kinyua from Laikipia County, that he is not a trader. So, the interest that he seems to want to protect is some personal interest that I can confirm. I can also conform to you that the line of divide between willing buyer willing seller and absolute exploitation in as far as the trade in Ndengu is concerned is very thin. In fact, in most cases, that line does not even exist. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we are trying to protect our farmers from that thinking that because you are so desperate to sell your commodity which you have tilled the land and produced, and because you want money to go and pay school fees for your child, anybody who comes and offers anything, you can just give out your product and it is okay. That is the thing that we want to cure. That is why we said yesterday that this House must begin to stop legislating in vain. When we passed the Warehousing Receipts System Bill, it was to address exactly that issue that Sen. Kinyua has raised. In a situation like ours with regard to the ndengu situation, because the farmers are registered, the county government can take the crop from farmers and store it in a warehouse. This is so that the trader, who is willing to buy, and the county government, on behalf the farmers who are willing to sell, can negotiate better prices for our product. That is exactly what we intend to cure with this Bill."
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