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    "id": 1371244,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1371244/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thank you for allowing me to contribute to the Coffee Bill, 2023. I was here when the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries chairman moved this Bill. He talked passionately about the problem that the local coffee producer or farmer has. The coffee farmers are not getting value for the effort and energy they put into producing the coffee. He gave us an example of while he was outside looking at the pricing of the product of the coffee farmer. He found out that the coffee farmer was paid Kshs100 per kilogramme, and the actual market price at the retail was Kshs600 per kilogramme. He lamented about the problems of the local coffee person. The problems they have with the intermediaries. He then proposed that we should support this Bill. This is an intellectual way to approach issues and look for legislative solutions to the problems of the ordinary person. We in this administration have gone away from making promises to implementation. Some have argued that we are talking too much but not doing much. Those people are not here to listen to the structural, legal framework we are putting in to support reforms. It is a common trend in the Kenya Kwanza administration that we are not just talking. When we say we want to take this country to a different level, this is not just a political statement; we want to convert actual political statements into fundamental,"
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