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    "id": 1213744,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also rise to support the Committee on Delegated Legislation on the annulment of these regulations. More importantly, in the last Parliament, I served in this Committee headed by the now Deputy Speaker. I think we did a very good job. One thing that is grossly abused in this House is the issue of making laws through the backdoor for the convenience of the national Government. First of all, Government agencies bring their draft regulations at a time when the House is almost going for recess or when we are approaching a general election. The House then passes very serious regulations, some of which have timelines within which to become operational on their own. Apart from just the coffee issue, I want to support the Committee and encourage them to do their work. They should scrutinise all legislations so that we do not get Government agencies that get over-enthusiastic and pass laws without coming to this House. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I also want to join the coffee growers. I grew up in coffee growing areas. I have been educated with proceeds of coffee and tea from Murang’a before I got to university. Maybe, I would not have gone to Gilgil if I did not leave that village. It is through coffee that we have found ourselves here. Currently, in the American media, there is a programme called “ Shark Tank ” where a young lady called Margaret Nyamumbo has been able to pitch for funding for her coffee called Kahawa 1893. I think if we need more marketing, this is the right time to protect our coffee and do the same for all our cash crops, including tea, pyrethrum and cotton where possible. This will ensure that the bottom-up economic model that we are talking about is realised, more importantly for the actual farmers who pluck the coffee, who are almost 90 per cent women. I hope we can get the right people to get the money and not just the owners of the land. This is so that we make this a statement and improve the earnings of the small-scale farmers and protect them from the cartels in the factories so that they can reap from their sweat. I do not want to say much but to support the Committee and their Report."
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