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"speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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"content": "I also have issues with Clause 8 of the Bill, but I do not see the co-sponsor who was here. It concerns the composition of members of the Board. Clause 8(b)(2) talks about those elected under Clause 7(1)(e) and (f), that is, the two from smallholder coffee growers and in (f), one person nominated by the largest association of estate growers. They say that person is only required to have a certificate of secondary education. Yesterday, there was an article in the newspaper, I think in the Daily Nation, from the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), which bemoaned that the poor productivity in the agricultural sector is simply because the sector is dominated by persons of low academic qualifications or educational levels. We will not cure the malady, malice and the challenges in the coffee sector if we again entrench the stereotype, that it is only people of the lowest educational level who can participate in agriculture. We must open it up and probably enhance the level of education. Quite a number of Members of Parliament here are coffee growers and are fairly educated."
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