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    "id": 1425227,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kisang’",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I also rise to make comments on the International Tea Day and to confirm that Elgeyo Marakwet County is also a tea-growing county. We are known for other things, but we also grow tea and we have one factory. We are in the process of getting a second one. Kenya produces high quality tea as our colleague and senior Sen. (Dr.) Oburu has said. The biggest challenge we have is that we export raw tea. The United Kingdom (UK) acquires our tea, processes and packages it as ‘English tea.’ If you go there, you will purchase it very expensively yet the beneficiaries are not the Kenyans who are growing the tea. It is very important that if there are any barriers that do not allow us to export our processed tea, then we approach it the way the President has with Toyota the Japanese brand. They are coming to Kenya to set up a factory to manufacture spare parts. If they do not open up these barriers, we should make them process the tea in the country so that we can generate employment opportunities for our youth. In the early 1980s and 1990s, when there was a lot of deforestation, the late President Daniel Arap Moi came up with the Nyayo Tea Zones. The reason was to ensure we conserve our forests. I believe that we also need to encourage our communities because in the process of planting and growing 15 billion trees, we need to partner with the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) so that we ensure that instead of fencing our forests, we"
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