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    "id": 1088318,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1088318/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
    },
    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to what I think is the most important Bill, Coffee Bill, 2020 before this House. I say so because there was a time in the history of this country during early years of our Independence when we had this rather disastrous moment of Chepkube. It was the ‘black gold’ that gave the name of the coffee. That it was such an important element of our commodity. People travelled and I could see people carrying money in sacks from the banks to go and buy coffee in Webuye, Chepkube and the other areas. This was because the international market was such that it was able to scale the heights of the top most prices internationally. Madam Temporary Speaker, I know from my county where I come from in both Kisii and Nyamira counties. We have one of the most effective cooperative societies which was the Coffee Society of Kisii. They had the most important imposing building called the Kisii Coffee Building. Whoever was a coffee manager in Kisii was a much bigger person than even the bank manager in terms of rating. This was because he handled a commodity which was precious in the hands of people. I am saddened that there has been a complete erosion of this commodity that was able to put food on the table, educate our children. That is not only to the secondary level, but the universities and also who were going out of this country. They got education because of coffee that they were earning from the small holding which was properly organized. We were able to deliver the cherries and other things to the coffee freshening"
}