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    "id": 1046814,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1046814/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill by Hon. Tandaza Sawa. It comes at a time when we need to be thinking about how to handle the whole agricultural sector. We know the importance of the agricultural sector in this country. It has been captured very well within our policy documents and Vision 2030. It has been captured within all the policy papers. It is even captured very well going forward in terms of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) and the emphasis on agriculture and value addition and empowering people at the different levels as part of the shared prosperity. This is because Kenya is a prosperous country. The people of Kwale have been blessed with that crop. It grows within that area. I have been a visitor to Kwale for a long time and I remember even when I was Minister for Lands and I visited Kwale, I was shown the Kenya Bixa Plantations and Company. People kept on saying that crop is good but it has never been given the formal recognition so that value addition can be done on it so that it can be marketed so that the exploitation on the local farmer by a few merchants can be stopped. This is coming in at a good time and we must thank Hon. Tandaza for this foresight and for really representing the people of Kwale to actually get that crop onto the map."
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