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    "id": 1472432,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1472432/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sigowet/Soin, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Justice Kemei",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to the Mung Beans Bill. When the Bill was forwarded from the Senate, we looked at it in the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock. Indeed, as Hon. Murugara has put it, we made a number of changes to support the Senate, where the Bill originated from. We did this cognisant of the fact that mung beans, popularly referred to as ndengu in Kenya, is a very critical crop in food nutrition and food self-sufficiency in this country. Given an ideal regulatory environment, we would meet the objectives of having this crop in this country. The issue of public participation has also come up. As the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, we did our level best within the confines of the time given to prepare the Bill. Clearly, in bringing this Bill to Parliament, we are not asking for the formation of another parastatal to govern the growth and marketing of mung beans. It is a way of ensuring that it is included among the scheduled crops which are being handled by AFA in this country. That way, we will make sure that the environment in which it is promoted, grown and marketed is governed by the laws of this country. The concerns raised by Hon. Murugara were addressed. Therefore, instead of us throwing away the Bill, we should consider it at the Committee of the whole House and make the necessary recommendations. This will ensure that it can be used to improve the growth of mung beans in the country. Hon. Speaker, with those few remarks, I support. I also ask my colleague, who is seated in front of me, to bring in the changes he so desires so that we can have a regulatory framework to govern the growing of mung beans. Thank you."
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