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    "id": 1251001,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "We need to tell the owners of multinational companies even if they are in London and are powerful, whoever they are, that they cannot muzzle and intimidate leaders from speaking against tea plucking machines taking the jobs of our young people and men. We shall speak the truth. We want to ask the Ministry of Interior and National Administration - CS (Prof.) Kithure Kindiki is my very good friend and my elder brother, that this is not a security issue. This is a societal matter. How do you feel when you walk to Chepkunyuk trading centre, Imani trading centre, Nandi Hills Town, Kapchorwa, Tereno, Maraba Trading Centre and you get many young people are idle; people who six months or one year ago used to go and pluck tea and get something? Many families are breaking down because the women of today, if you do not go with something in the evening, and there is a Kipsigis song that says you must have something to open the door with; I do not want to say it in Kipsigis because the Standing Orders do not allow. You must at least have what we call ‘ selele’ or the bag to open the door with. It is also opens the door to the house and other things as the night progresses. The issue of tea plucking machines is also affecting families and it is breaking down the family. It is affecting the dignity and respect of men. As a man when you no longer provide, there is what we call in our region ‘Kiptindinyos’ which will come to our houses. I am happy that Sen. Maanzo is in the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. I urge him to kindly react to this issue of tea plucking machines through the Office of the Speaker. The third and final thing is on the issue of the exchange of technology. I want to agree that let us transfer technology and improve the hybrid. Kenya Seed is one of them. I know Sen. Tabitha Mutinda has mentioned about KEPHIS and AFA. I am told Kenya Seeds is struggling. They do not have enough budget to do research in terms of not only maize seed, potato seed in Nyandarua and any other form of seed."
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