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    "id": 1088283,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, one of the critical responses from that Committee was that there is no attention of the Government to the cereals sector, particularly maize. It is because AFA was lumped together with many different parastatals with one Director-General. The people in the know and who have had conversations with the management of AFA, will tell you that you bring someone who understands only one crop, then others like horticulture, coffee, tea, coconut and cotton, will suffer. Since Independence, there was wisdom as to why our founding fathers and Government thought that every crop needed its unique management structure. As I have said, I am glad that our Chairperson is the former Cabinet Minister for Cooperatives and was there at the very critical time in this country’s reforms in the Government of the Third President. His wisdom has helped to inform where we should go as a country. That is why we are now dismembering AFA to ensure the institutions that existed before now go back and revive the various crops we have in this country. The most important thing about this Bill is the separation of powers, functions and responsibilities. Like the Mover and Chairperson of this Committee has rightly captured, we want to separate the person regulating the sector, from the farmer, the marketer and the one milling. The object of this Bill is to ensure that millers, who are the marketers and controllers of their market not just locally, but internationally, are separated in terms of their functions. The marketing, milling and farming should be different."
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