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    "speaker_name": "Kilgoris, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Sunkuli",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you very much for this opportunity. I will speak about Kericho because I was posted there when I first became a magistrate. The lifeline of Kericho is the tea estates. Without the tea estates, there is no Kericho. Kericho is one of the most beautiful places in Kenya, just like Limuru, which is also very beautiful. The economy of Kericho has always depended on tea estates. Tea estates have not just benefited the people of Kericho in terms of employment, but many people in the South Rift seek employment in Kericho. It is very important that I make this point, because this Report shows that there has been a problem with respect to those who seek employment there. I urge the management of all the big estates in Kericho, be it James Finlay Limited, George Williamson Tea, or the successor of Unilever Tea Brands, to take responsibility for those issues. Even before the police are invited to investigate, the estates should investigate this matter because the livelihoods of our people rely on those estates. I urge Members that if we want our people to continue working in the tea estates in Kericho, let us desist from thinking that if we one day subdivide the estates in Kericho, life will be better. In fact, it is like slaying the goose that lays the golden egg. Let us protect the estates as they are. If we leave those estates to our people to manage, many things will happen. Still in Kericho, another employer called ‘Tea Hotel’ was very good when it was run by those estates. Our people agitated and said that they did not want those companies to be involved in the management of the Tea Hotel, which was the jewel of the South Rift. There is no Tea Hotel today. Our good Africans messed it up. If you propose the change of management of those estates and give it to Africans, they will turn them into tiny things, and you will not be discussing them today. I know that there is a problem with the foreigners who run James Finlay Limited, George Williamson Tea or Unilever Tea Brands. They have acquired some colonial habits and that is what we should attack. We must tell them that this is a free country. That also happens in the Transmara Sugar Company. You cannot even see the Managing Director unless you share his skin colour. That is what we should attack. We should also attack the issues that we are discussing today. We do not want our people to go there and be told that they must have sex to get work. People must be given responsibilities because of their abilities or available vacancies. Kericho is large enough for all of us. This Report has brought up these issues. I hope that those companies are listening. I hope that they will retain the dignity of women. As Members speak, they should not destroy the nature of Kenya. Today you will say that we subdivide Kericho, and then next time, you will want to 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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