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    "id": 1476510,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1476510/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Masaba, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Clive Gisairo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon Deputy Speaker. I would like to thank the two Members who brought up this matter. I come from Nyamira County, where almost 70 per cent of the population rely on tea farming as their main cash crop. It is somehow comical that farmers who wake up early in the morning end up working for nothing while a few people who sit in offices in Nairobi, around the factories and at the auction points in Mombasa rake in millions of shillings. Tea is auctioned using the US Dollar denomination. The farmer is never ever informed about the forex. All we see year in, year out is the bonus rate coming down or stagnating. The farmer still gets the same amount from the time the US Dollar was exchanging at Ksh90. Today the US Dollar gyrates between Ksh120 and Ksh130. However, the farmer still gets between Ksh20 and Ksh30 per kilogramme. We cannot have a system which exists to ensure that the poor remains poor and the rich, who do the least, rake in millions of shillings. It is painful. As a House, we need to come up with ways to ensure that we protect the farmer, so that tea benefits the poorest person to ensure that they are able to take their children to school and feed them. We have a responsibility. We cannot sit here and wish that farmers have a better day tomorrow without us doing something."
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