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    "id": 1088310,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "we want to change the cycle of the Meru farmer from miraa to coffee, we should have research that brings in various varieties of coffee. Madam Temporary Speaker, those are some of the issues specific to the statute. I do not know if Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri is here. Yes, he is. He will remember the uproar that we had here when the current Cabinet Secretary (CS) of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperative Societies, took money from the World Bank, denied all parts in the country and put it in one region. We must take away this discretion from errant CSs. I urge that we have a provision in this Bill that says donor intervention funds for agriculture, particularly for a crop like coffee, must be equitably distributed across the country in all coffee growing areas. Why would you put Kshs3.6 billion in one area and ignore all the others, yet this money can make a lot of difference for everybody else? As I finish, coffee has made countries. Brazil is Brazil, Colombia is Colombia and Bolivia is Bolivia because of coffee. Kenya used to be a major coffee growing and exporting country. For those who went to school earlier on like Sen. Ndwiga and Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri, there was a book we read in primary school called the Journey of Mr. and Mrs. Mtapingwa by Kato, Kokogonza and Jack. These fellows left Bukoba to go to Zanzibar for a coffee meeting. The writer of this book traces a journey of coffee growing in Kenya from Bukoba to Jinja, Mbale, Bungoma, Kitale, Kiambu, Arusha, Dar es Salaam and eventually to fly to Zanzibar. We used to read that book from January to December. At the end of the year in Standard Four, we had walked through East Africa with coffee. That tells you how important East Africa was as a coffee growing area. Madam Temporary Speaker, can I beg for a little more time?"
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