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    "id": 1088280,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "We are so privileged to have Sen. Ndwiga as the Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries at a time that we are still undergoing transition in moving from the former centralized to devolved system of Government. In this House, especially those who came here in 2013, we all know that we did not achieve the kind of transition which was expected under the current Constitution. Sen. Wetangula will tell you that the regime that exists now is such that you have functions devolved to counties, but a legal framework that keeps those functions and recourses at the centre. So then, what we have in the name of the AFA is a form of complete centralization. I can understand the wisdom that was in the Coalition Government and the Ministry at the time AFA was established, to minimize cost in terms of reducing the number of parastatals. However, the loses outweigh the benefits. The AFA has become one of the biggest causes and an institution that has aided complete failure in the agriculture sector. As I speak, Madam Temporary Speaker, the agriculture sector is ailing. We rescued the tea sector by having a Bill here which was consultative through formation of a Committee. The coconut, coffee and cereals sectors are ailing too. The Deputy Speaker knows this very well because she co-chaired with Sen. Wetangula the ad hoc Committee on matters of maize."
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