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    "id": 1088380,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1088380/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "control. The licensing authority should be able to be put into a place for various provisions. There is a penalty clause there. For the first time, I am seeing an innovation about confiscation of products apart from a jail term and a fine. This is because these products are very dear. This is also expected to act as a deterrent. I think that is very innovative because most of the clauses for penalties are either financial fines or imprisonment. Most of these CRI have been in existence for some time. The problem is the funding strategy for them. There is so much that they can do. If you think of now, the time that we have the COVID-19 pandemic and we are thinking about some of the vaccines or innovations--- We know that over time we there have been teams that made breakthroughs in the research for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) between the University of Nairobi and Oxford University. Therefore, we want our institutes to lead in terms of providing some of these answers. Most of the time when you have a cursory glance, you will find that the issue is mainly on finances. I really hope that this Bill will be able to put money into research so that all these institutes can do serious research and help farmers. These provisions are very clear in Clause 43. They are advising national and county governments on the resource requirements, prioritizing areas, facilitating the use of improved production and technology, and establishing adequate feedback systems from agricultural producers. These are very keen. It is a big thing. The issue of value addition also goes there. Apart from just value addition for the product, we also have value addition in terms of the number of employees that are now coming into the sector. I have looked at the data. When we go to the export market, we have about eight key exporters of coffee. These are organizations and groups that keep employing more people who need to be there. It says that the institute shall make policy and identify policy. All this is in Clause 43 (2). We also have the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and their responsibilities and qualifications have been put there. Clause 57 is very important because it calls for accountability of the institution. It is on accounts and audit and the process in which that should be engaged simultaneously. I think that this gives a very broad and clear perspective of what we expect within the coffee industry. Over time, once whatever we are talking about here is implemented, we will have a situation where we can have increment in terms of production. One of the strengths of this Bill is the interlinking of all the various key institutions right from the grassroots, the county assemblies, the boards and institutions, the coffee board itself, the responsibilities that have been given to the Cabinet Secretary (CS), the CEC and the provisions for each of these. Schedule I gives the outlining of how that board should work in very specific terms. It gives the time the board should be called and how they should conduct themselves. If I put in these provisions within the area, then we know that we can get to a point where we can handle our coffee well. Our coffee is well known as Arabica but with five variances, SL28, SL34, K7, Ruiru 11 and Batian. Those variances are so important from different places. I see Sen. Sakaja. Sen. Sakaja, these variances are in existence and very important. Let me end"
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