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    "id": 1371246,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "tangible legal frameworks that will produce the eventual product we desire, which is to help the common mwananchi . If you look at what we did with the Universal Health Coverage, it was like a dream that people used to think would not happen. How do you reform the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF)? How do you make it possible to treat someone who has a chronic disease and goes to a Level 4 or Level 5 hospital and gets treatment without paying cent? We have done it. How do you do it in an emergency? We used intellectual capacity. The thinking capacity within the Kenya Kwanza administration is to put in place not only policy but the legal framework that will address the issues confronting the local person and give them permanency to help this country move forward. Even after President William Ruto leaves office of the President, we will have the four laws that have ensured that Kenyan people have digital health. Kenyans have a new authority guaranteeing free access to medical health and community health promoters. We have left a legacy of change. In the agricultural sector, we said that we needed to make sure that the labor of the farmer enriches him. This Bill is part of the plan. While moving the Bill, the chairperson of this Committee said he needed to get the full benefit of their labor. Kenyans listening to me, I urge you to understand that it is not enough to come up with a budget of Kshs2 billion to write off the loans of coffee farmers. People would clap for such a President and say he is doing something while in essence doing nothing. Without structural, policy, and legal framework change, we would have gone to the same old ways of doing things of farmers being exploited while they take loans they are unable to pay. The Government comes in with populist agendas without applying English thinking on issues and writing off the debts. Then, the burden goes back again to the farmer. Those of us from regions that grow coconut, why do we not get a Kshs2 billion write-off? Why do farmers who grow Mangos, not get Kshs2 billion write-offs? Is it because the President does not come from our place? It was because of a lack of wisdom or a foolish approach to policy issues. When the farmer has a problem with middlemen, the solution cannot be that the President of the day, because he comes from that area, wipes off the debt using public funds. This was a backward approach. What our former Presidents were doing was the wrong way of doing things. Now, juxtapose that against what we are doing now. Juxtapose that cheap way of doing things that creates a bad feeling amongst all Kenyans with this approach. We are creating a legal framework. What does this legal framework say? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the proposed Clause 27(9) of this Coffee Bill 2013 says- “The holder of a coffee buyer’s license or an entity associated with a holder of the license shall not carry on the business of a commercial miller, broker, roaster, agent or warehouse operator”. We are trying to cut off middlemen. We are trying to remove the people who used to make the ordinary coffee farmer suffer. We are not doing it through roadside"
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