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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, something else I want to emphasize in this Bill is part of the research. The Bill brings back and recognizes the authority and power of the CRI and the importance of knowledge and education in ensuring that we have a proper coffee produce in our country. This institute does the responsibility of advising national and county governments on matters research. It has the responsibility of disseminating information and information sharing locally and internationally and improve production and sharing of technology and so forth. This again is a very important institution staffed with very qualified individuals in the areas of coffee. They will ensure that our country gets necessary information. The issue that we have been suffering in this country with is the problem of not applying education. Research is done by various universities and institutions, but it is not properly applied. We want to ensure that through this Bill, there is interlink between the Coffee Research Institute and the county governments. That the county governments having representation in this board will also utilize resource that is coming from this institution and make coffee production a very lucrative business. Madam Temporary Speaker, I just want to conclude by saying we have struggled as a Committee. Even though there is a committee that was established by the President and gazetted we have had a problem with the current Cabinet Secretary (CS). The conduct of CS, Hon. Munya is unbecoming. He has become like a direct agent of cartels. He is operating against the same Government he is serving. The Cabinet establishes a committee that will make sure we take coffee products to commodity exchange. Himself he takes matters into his own hands and gazettes a law that does not operate even under his Ministry so that Capital Markets Authority do not come and regulate coffee as commodity being traded in the country. I will table the letters doing exchange between the Attorney-General and CS, Hon. Munya. The Attorney-General stops short of telling him that as a lawyer, you should understand what the law is all about. This is what blinds this nation. It is because of the small and short term interests that individuals have in this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, I pity this because CS, Hon. Munya comes from a region that he should be protecting the farmers. He comes from Mt. Kenya region where most of the farmers are crying about coffee prices. People are cutting their coffees and establishing brick and mortar building flats yet coffee can be more lucrative and employ more people in this country than flats which are being built. The CS is falling into the hands of cartels. The danger with this behaviour is that it usually opens appendices before election. Your guess is as good as mine. It is because there are incentives that come with cartels when they know that elections are around the corner. They know that politicians and aspirants want money. We want to tell the CS to respect the Cabinet itself and the President who established a committee that wanted transparency and accountability. Madam Temporary Speaker, as a Committee, we will not get tired raising these issues because the exchanges that we have here cannot go unchallenged. I want to request this House today. Let us debate this Bill robustly today and possibly dispense with second reading tomorrow. This is so that next week we come back to do the amendments in the Committee stage and pass this Bill. It goes to the National Assembly and we sort"
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