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    "id": 1371181,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "then you corner her. God forbid. I have mentioned you because you are the nearest Member next to me. Mr. Speaker, that leads me to the next problem that affects these farmers. The 800,000 farmers are not the ones who manage the factories. So, the Government must help in ensuring that the management of factories is not done by those cartels, but by people of integrity. It is amazing that in the midst of poor small-scale farmers, we have billionaires who do not even have a quarter acre of coffee farm. Beyond managing those factories, it is now a stated fact, an agreed experience, that the best way to get the maximum from the small-scale farmers is usually by putting them in cooperative societies. The emergence of cooperative societies has now become a big problem because the cartels have moved into controlling the cooperative societies. Earlier on in our lives, the cooperative movement was so powerful that the Nordic countries established the cooperative college in Karen. It was a gift from the Nordic countries because of the vibrancy of the cooperative movement in this country. It was a huge institution. Thanks to cartels and the mismanagement of cooperatives, the cooperative college has since collapsed and has been converted into the Cooperative University of Kenya. I see people celebrating that it is now a university. They do not know what loss it has attracted to the---"
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