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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Webuye West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Wanyama",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. This Coffee Bill gives hope to the coffee farmers who have been suffering at the hands of cartels. Where I come from, Bungoma County, in the olden days, it was one of the counties that gave some money to the colonial government because the coffee society was doing very well. However, we got it all wrong when we allowed the cartels to get into selling coffee. This Bill, therefore, comes to give hope to very many farmers who had given up on life because the cartels have always taken the sweat of the farmers, instead of them reaping benefits from it. I stand to support this Bill because Kenya got it wrong when we failed to protect our farmers from those unscrupulous people. They organise crimes to steal coffee from societies, and it ends up in the hands of people who do not even have a stem of coffee. Therefore, this Bill gives much hope to many farmers, and it will activate the economy in terms of foreign exchange earnings. This is a crop that earns foreign exchange, and it will improve the economy of this country. We want to encourage farmers that with the passage of this Bill, all will be well. Farmers should come up and take care of their stems because things are now going to work out, and all the cartels will be brought to book, thereby giving farmers value for their money."
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