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    "id": 1213728,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1213728/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyeri Town, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Duncan Mathenge",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support the annulment of the Coffee Regulations. The House cannot celebrate annulment of those regulations. What is the status quo that we would be resorting to? If the status quo had been good and benefitted coffee farmers, there would never have been need to introduce new regulations. Therefore, this House must move with speed to ensure that the intention behind the first step to introduce new regulations is achieved. Nobody is willing to reveal to Kenyans the people who own the Nairobi Coffee Exchange. We have a commodity worth billions of shillings being traded by people we do not know their stake in the coffee trade and value chain. We do not know what kind of control and interventions they are able to make in the back office of the coffee trade. These regulations assist cartels who exploit coffee farmers. They extended the licences of 11 marketers who have mutated from being millers to auctioneers at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange. I support this Motion but I urge the House to move with speed and ensure that the Kenyan coffee farmers are given back the power to sell and mill the produce that they labour for. Why do Kenyan farmers need a licence to sell their coffee? Why do Kenyan farmers need a licence to mill their coffee? Why do Kenyan farmers need a guarantee to directly sell their coffee in the international market? These are barriers that are used to ensure that the Kenyan coffee farmer is made a slave of cartels and brokers in the coffee chain. With those remarks, I support the Motion. 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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