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    "id": 1088396,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "There are companies in Kenya who are doing value addition. One of them is Twiga Foods They come to your farm, take your pH and check your soil then they tell you plant this. After planting they tell you these are the farm inputs. They pay et cetera and when you harvest they collect and pay MPESA on the spot. These are private people and Government can do this. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, these are private and the Government can do this. I have read this Bill in its entirety and asked Sen. Ndwiga questions. There is no reason why our embassies all over the world cannot be the chief marketers of our coffee. What are they doing paying rent of Kshs2 million a month while we should be serving Kenyan coffee? We went for these meetings; I am referring to meetings we had in Brazil and by the end of the day, my head was spinning. The first thing the offer you is Robusta coffee and not water. That is a way of marketing their coffee. We can do this. I support Sen. Ndwiga. Let us finish this thing quickly and get it out of here. They have done a good job and I do not need to go clause by clause. Just the same way we did the tea Bill, we can do the coffee Bill. That is the way to help that poor Kenyan farmer who has four coffee trees. Finally, my grandfather was a very poor man and could only educate my father with proceeds from coffee. At some point, they contemplated cutting that coffee. My grandfather passed on and my father was persuaded not to uproot the coffee. My father took me to that coffee and told me it is what educated him. He said it was not making money but I should not touch it because one day, it will. That day, surely, has come through Sen. Ndwiga. This is the way to do it. Therefore, I support this Bill. Let us take this message everywhere. There is no reason why we cannot sell coffee in the Dubai Expo. When you go to our Embassy in England, you get a cab that is written Kenyan Coffee and not Java. That sort of thing. This is the way to do it. You can find a variety of coffee to grow in even the most arid place in Kenya, provided you find a method of how to do it. I am sure we can do it. Thank you, Sen. Ndwiga. This Senate would be so much poorer without you. I support."
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