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    "id": 1213721,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bonchari, UPA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Onchoke",
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    "content": "I repeat? Hon. Deputy Speaker, you got that. The Coffee Regulations is just one among the many regulations that the bodies making those regulations have flouted the law in making them. I am a Member of the Committee on Delegated Legislation and a lot of those regulations have come to our notice. It is very sad that it has gone on for a long time unabated. It is time Parliament cracked the whip and annulled all those regulations so that the law can be followed. Just yesterday, I had the privilege and honour to accompany some of my colleagues to the Nairobi Coffee Exchange and it was very interesting. A number of questions were asked but there was this particular question about the ownership and the nature of the Nairobi Coffee Exchange as an organisation. We saw the person taking us around go round about it and did not want to face it. I think this is just an indication that this a mischief that should be corrected and should not be allowed to continue as it is going to affect many farmers particularly where I come from in Bonchari. I have suffered because of these kinds of legal frameworks that disadvantage and do not benefit them or support them to grow the crops that ordinarily should be earning Kenya a lot of money, and whose proceeds should be going to farmers who sweat while growing coffee. My own family grows coffee but over the years we have been victims of these poor legal frameworks. This disadvantaged us, and has made us not to earn the money that we should be earning from coffee growing. I want to support these regulations alongside others that have been made in the same manner which contravene the Statutory Instruments Act and other laws we annulled so that we can be a country of law, order, and reward those who do well, particularly our farmers. I support."
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