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    "id": 1213747,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, as many of the Members have said, it is important to look at the many regulations that were passed between 2019 and 2020. The regulations within the various sectors of the economy affect the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), who are our traders. As Mwalimu said, they also affect teachers and workers in the health sector of this country. It is time we looked at every devolved function and see how we can work closely with the national Government, which is supposed to develop policies for the counties to implement. The most unfortunate part is the imbalance that we have – not just in the coffee subsector but also in the tea and sugar subsectors – between the farmer and the middleman. The middleman becomes the cartel who exports the crop and purports to do the farming. Looking at how coffee auction is done, it is extremely sad. The farmer who does everything until we have the finished product, is paid peanuts while the middleman makes double profit and moves on. As Members of this House, we must support the Committee on Delegated Legislation to ensure that all the regulations that affect Kenyans come back to this House either to be approved or revised. We must ensure that we have public participation by every Kenyan within their sectors. This is to ensure that the stakeholders participate, appreciate and agree that the regulations can transform their sector and give them profit. With those few remarks, I support the Committee. We should, indeed, restart the process and have it done in the right way. Let us not look at it for the sake of others. Let us look at this process as the 13th Parliament that is serving every Kenyan. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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