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    "id": 1133059,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1133059/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1574,
        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
        "slug": "cyprian-kubai-iringo"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the two Petitions. First and foremost, mechanising the plucking of tea will render many citizens of this country jobless or with no ways of earning a living. Tea being one of the main cash crops of this country, its farming employs many citizens. Most of the tea pickers are squatters and have very minimal earnings. They comprise of a very big number of citizens who are in the rural areas. If we introduce machines into the farms, we will render many families destitute and more so, they will not be able to cater for their needs like education, medicine and even housing. I am a tea farmer. I have come to understand that the machines sometimes do not harvest good quality tea. So, if we introduce them, we will also drop the quality of our tea. On the issue of squatters, many squatters have invaded my constituency, especially from Tharaka. We really want to ask them to stick to their land. Let them not come to our land in Meru. Thank you."
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