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    "id": 1371177,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1371177/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 170,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Bill. I read somewhere that the more things change, the more they remain the same. The objective of this Bill is that we have- “An act of Parliament to provide for the establishment of the Coffee Board of Kenya, and the Coffee Research Institute; to provide for the role of the national and the county governments; provide for the regulation, development and promotion of coffee industry; and for connected purposes.” There is nothing new in the objective of this Bill. Dear colleagues, this is exactly what the law was when the hon. Speaker was a Member of the National Assembly of Kenya at the beginning of this century. Somebody got misguided and brought a Bill that amalgamated all the boards in the country. The coffee, pyrethrum, cotton and sugar boards, among others, were all amalgamated into some crazy thing called the Agricultural Food Act (AFA). That was the beginning of the problem. What happened at that time was that the Kenya Sugar Board of Kenya (KSB) had in its books, credit in excess of Kshs6 billion. So, the moment they amalgamated the KSB, that money disappeared. That was the beginning of the collapse of the sugar industry in the sugar belt. I think somebody had thought that since that money was lying there, the sugar industry was very lucrative. They would use it to then inject into other meaningless boards that were struggling such as the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya (PBK) for them to"
}