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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1382608/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rangwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Allow me to appreciate my sister, Hon. Emaase, for coming up with this Senate- sponsored Bill that has a National Assembly component. Well done, Hon. Emaase. This Bill provides for the production, processing, marketing and distribution of cotton and its products in Kenya. It also establishes the Cotton Industry Development Board, provides a framework for cotton farming, and ensures value-addition to cotton and its related products, and for connected purposes. I must emphasise that I rise to support the Bill. Allow me to also bring Members up to speed with what is happening in my county. This is a Bill concerning counties and my Governor, Her Excellency Gladys Nyasuna Wanga, has done a perfect job ahead of time. This Bill will lay the legal framework, but Homa Bay County is ahead of the rest of Kenya by dint of what we are already doing to improve the lives of farmers and people who are at the grassroots level like mama mboga, Min Akinyi and Min Adhiambo. Within a short time, Homa Bay County will be ahead of everybody else because we recently had an investment conference and one of our priorities to empower the locals was through cotton production. We are waiting for the enactment of this Bill and for the establishment of the Board."
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