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    "id": 1263105,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to Reply. I begin where my brother, my friend, my neighbour, the Senator of Tana River has left. It is an open secret that ndengu farmers and many farmers of legumes in our country have been both oppressed and segregated over a long period of time. A time has come that we must lift that yoke of segregation and oppression as a country. We are not very well endowed with mineral resources. I guess that is why we say that Kenya is largely an agricultural country. In this Bill, my colleagues and I see an opportunity to diversify our cash crops base because the traditional cash crops; tea, coffee and pyrethrum, are losing out to international competition. As a Senate, we have a responsibility to each farmer in this country to innovate around the practice of agriculture and to regulate this industry. Madam Temporary Speaker, I made the opening remarks. I take this opportunity to warmly thank Sen. Mwaruma, Senator for Taita Taveta County who seconded this Bill. I also want to thank our able Chair of the Standing Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Sen. (Dr.) Murango, for being extremely passionate about this Bill. When the Bill went to the Committee, the Chair took it up as his own. He led us to very robust and successful public participation exercises in Kitui County. We visited four regions; Tseikuru, Ngomeni, Mutomo and Kiusyani."
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