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    "id": 1213696,
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    "speaker_name": "Gichugu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gichimu Githinji",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Deputy Speaker. Before I second the Motion, I would also like to associate myself with the students at the Speaker’s Gallery, Kabare Girls High School, one of the best national schools in my constituency. They are most welcome although, Hon. Deputy Speaker, you had welcomed them. I rise to second this Motion. It is a requirement by the Statutory Instruments Act that every regulatory making authority must adhere to various requirements that are enlisted under the Statutory Instruments Act. One of the basic and most important requirements is that, a body must always conduct adequate or sufficient public participation. In this case, as the Chair of the Committee has correctly indicated, these Regulations fell short of that requirement. It is also suspicious that these Regulations were brought to Parliament when this Parliament was just about to adjourn sine die and Members were very busy in their campaign trails. These Regulations seek to amend the 2019 Regulations which were seeking to make the market for coffee, especially at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange transparent. A regulation had been introduced where the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) was supposed to be overseeing the trading of the commodity that is coffee. These Regulations were removing the CMA, so the farmer was left bare with no one to watch over what was happening at the NCE. Again, the Regulations were also seeking to remove the farmer from directly selling their coffee through the co-operatives. This has been a problem for many years. Farmers have been fighting to be given an opportunity to sell their coffee at the Exchange without many limitations. Remember that one of the requirements under the previous Regulations was that a farmer or a cooperative society had to raise over Ksh100 million in order to be licensed to sell off directly at the exchange. The 2019 Regulations which were to be amended by the 2022 Regulations were removing the aspect of the farmer having direct access and having a miller market license. They were restoring the previous problem that was there, that the current multi- national millers were now being restored to be the only people who were licensed to sell coffee at the auction. The other aspect of these regulations is that there is no regulatory impact assessment report, which is a main requirement. Looking at the impact of regulations, they affected hundreds of thousands of farmers in this country. That is a very serious issue that would have required a regulatory impact assessment to be given to the Committee. Hon. Deputy Speaker, in the interest of time because I can see I am almost exhausting my time, I must say that coffee farmers are happy about whatever we are doing because the law was not followed and we will have to stick to protect the coffee farmers in this country. I second."
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