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    "id": 1142736,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "highest potential prices that are required for communities and groups so as to attain their potential. What does that mean? It obviously means that it will increase the earning capacity of those groups. This will kill out the handouts culture, which has become an endemic in our society. When people have incomes, which are predictable and flowing in their pockets, it is quite clear that they will have to depend on their labour and economic welfare within that group. This is the only way they can achieve their goals. The second element of success maybe that they may bring up a group for a particular item, call it a saving. I have seen some of the saving programmes in the form of Savings and Credit Co-operatives Societies (SACCOS), which have grown into huge conglomerates that handle large amounts of funds. The SACCO movement in this country is one of the most successful movements when properly handled. We have a SACCO in our own Parliament which serves the membership of the National Assembly and the Senate. We similarly have various SACCOs like the matatus and boda bodas. This can be organized into a powerful entity where you have the bodaboda in various centres or points of their businesses properly organized to pull their investments and earnings in form of savings. That can grow into huge sums of money that can be ploughed back in full support in the form of either dividends or loans. Those will be accessible resources and money for them to get loans to advance their businesses and increase their capacity to earn more. To me, you need this type of a Bill to organize communities in the form of land and water resources that are available. I have an example of West Pokot or Elgeyo-Marakwet. We have some of the fresh water rivers in those areas. Why do they not get themselves into groups and do water bottling plants that can be sold within those regions and beyond? That will increase the potential of possible earnings in various areas. Again, we have mangoes in West Pokot and the Kerio Valley. Why can groups not come together and turn that area into a potential of processing mangoes juices that can be sold as the West Pokot and Kerio Valley juices? For example, we have South African juices that are all over the shelves of retail shops, big supermarkets like Quickmart and other shops in this and various towns. Why can we not increase our potential that is lying dormant in those two counties? It is my intention that if I am given the opportunity to serve as the Governor of Kisii County, these are some of the areas that I will have to develop progressively in form of value addition. I am seeking to become the Governor of Kisii County. We can have value addition of our bananas. You can do it by either selling bananas or increase the market into seven products that can produce enough for the communities. That can come in the form of communities or farmers who grow the bananas. The other one is the avocado industry. When you do the correct collection, grading and marketing strategy from cold storage points, you can get very attractive prices in the Middle East where we have countries like the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Europe and everywhere else. You will fetch very creditable prices that will be useful to the farmers. What happens to young men who have no capital seed in this kind of arrangement? They themselves are human capital and they have education and the necessary skills. What do"
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