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    "id": 1147469,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ndwiga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njeru Ndwiga",
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    "content": "I do not want to bore the House with the number of amendments we are rejecting, because we either accept all of them or reject all of them. I do hope that in the next one week, both this House and the National Assembly will find wisdom to establish a Mediation Committee to look at the amendments which are acceptable and the amendments which are not acceptable. I sincerely do hope that this Bill will see the light of day. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for those of us who pray, I hope we pray for the Government to begin to realise that the citizens of this country – the peasant coffee farmers out there – look up to the Government for protection. If it is the same Government that is denying them protection, it is clearly unthinkable. Right now, you will hear that coffee prices are good and we are being paid well. I want to caution coffee farmers that the price has not changed. The regulations we made here are the ones which will make a difference. We are seeing high coffee prices is not because the market has changed. It is because the dollar rate has shifted, whilst coffee is paid in dollars. The dollar rate is what is making the prices of coffee to look very good right now. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the only cure and protection we have for the Kenyan coffee farmer is this Bill; that is if you remove the mischievous amendments which have been introduced by the Government through the National Assembly. With those few remarks, I beg to move."
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