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    "id": 1356634,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to join my colleagues, Sen. Thang’wa, the Senator of Kiambu County and Sen. (Dr.) Murango of Kirinyaga County who have proposed and seconded this very important Bill. I spoke earlier in this House when I was giving the Senate Majority Leader's Statement for the week. I said it will be a great travesty of justice if as a House, we proceed on recess without concluding on the Tea Bill sponsored by yours truly, this Coffee Bill that has been brought by the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, the Sugar Bill sponsored by the Senator of Bungoma County and the Equalisation Fund Bill. About six or seven Bills that have got the chance to provide great resources to the people of Kenya yet on many afternoons, there are many other matters that we consider. In my humble opinion and submission, these matters ought to be at the very top of it. I say this because I know what coffee farming can do. I represent coffee farmers in this House. On many occasions, I know that I have been quite vocal. In fact, many times, part of the criticism that I suffer in my county is when I visit the coffee and the sugar growing areas because the people that I represent in this House are farmers of largely tea, but also to a greater extent, sugar cane and coffee. Many times, when I visit those regions, I find them ready to take on me and say: ‘Mr. Senator, we do not hear you as vocal on coffee and sugar as you are on tea.’ Therefore, this grants me at least the perfect excuse and opportunity to look at them and, of course, piggyback on the very good work that has been done by the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of providing a route through which our coffee farmers can begin to enjoy the sweat of their brow and get better earnings. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you know for a fact that it has been argued, and I agree with the economists who have said that as long as Africa continues to try to bypass the agrarian revolution period, we shall never attain meaningful development. This is a stage which, while the rest of the world; Europe and the Americans, cross this particular stage where you organize agriculture in such a way that it has meaning and can provide proper employment."
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