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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for this chance. I want to support the Committee and also laud what it has done. It has given its reasons clearly on why it has annulled these regulations. It is good you gave me this chance. I had a chance to travel with you to a meeting of governors and they were very cynical and concerned about certain Bills which concern the county governments. One of them happens to have been the Coffee Bill and the other one was the Sugarcane Bill, among others. You remember the real complaint they had is that these are devolved functions which somewhat the national Government under the Ministries has taken over and sometime obtains laws and proceeds to make regulations without even consulting them. We have seen such a case study on the Floor of the House as annulled by this Committee and I want to congratulate them because the key stakeholders in the coffee and all other agricultural-related issues are the county governments. The fact that they were not consulted makes it very difficult to proceed with such a type of law. Also, the regulatory authority did not do the impact assessment which should have brought in the farmers to give their opinion on how they want their own coffee to be regulated. Therefore, I totally support the annulment. In this country, this is not only happening in the coffee sector or the agricultural sector, but somewhat very many cabinet secretaries, and independent commissions are now making laws and getting away with it. These laws are either made as regulations, and in fact I am studying one from an independent commission, or are simply made as circulars and they start The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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