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    "id": 1213739,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nandi County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Cynthia Muge",
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    "content": "We also have diseases that affect coffee farms, including but not limited to the berry disease and leaf rust that is actually disturbing so many farmers. For a regulation to be brought here to amend other things while it does not address any of the mentioned issues is actually an insult to the farmers of this country. I want to appreciate this Committee because it did its job diligently. It ensured that it looked at the pertinent issues that are affecting coffee farmers in Kenya. In their wisdom, they have resorted to annulling it in its entirety. Hon. Temporary Speaker, mismanagement of the cooperative societies is a big issue. It is a problem that is even making coffee farmers not to receive their pay in good time. As we speak, many people have actually taken their coffee berries to cooperative societies but they have not been paid because of mismanagement. I want to say that the Committee has also raised very pertinent issues. How are you going to amend a regulation that touches on the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution of Kenya, which talks about separation of functions between the county governments and the national Government? If you look at the amendment to this particular regulation keenly, you will note that it intended to amend issues that actually touch on county governments in terms of their functions without sufficiently involving those stakeholders, who include but not limited to county Governors. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want to be on record that I support this Motion in entirety. I would like to ask the Committee, and especially the Departmental Committee on Agriculture to move a step further to look at these regulations so as to help the coffee farmers in Kenya. I am also one of the coffee farmers. The other issue that these particular regulations were supposed to address is uniform prices for coffee. We cannot be having a different coffee price for farmers in central Kenya or any other part of the country from those in the Rift Valley. Coffee is coffee. It is only the grading that makes the difference. The regions should not be making the difference. These are issues that are supposed to be sorted out through proper regulations, and not these other ones that do not making any sense. Therefore, I support the annulment of these regulations in entirety for non-compliance with the Constitution and other statutory instruments."
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