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    "id": 1545723,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1545723/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "It also includes funds, or conditional allocations, to the county aggregation and industrial park programme as set out in column C. I still have a lot of questions about this programme. Members of the Finance and Budget Committee, perhaps, later in the year, once you are done with this budget-making cycle, it will be important that you follow through with your specific counties on what programmes your governors are laying out to ensure that these County Aggregation and Industrial Parks (CAIPs) are not white elephant programmes. This is a partnership of the Council of Governors in support of the national Government. We support this idea of trying to whip up local goods and produce from our farmers and ensure that there is an aggregation process and a place through which we can enhance their trade. However, in most counties — and this is where I speak from a position of knowledge — apart from the construction of the CAIPs, I do not see any concerted effort from the county governments to ensure that the produce is available. Otherwise, you will end up in a situation where a fancy building has been built in Taita- Taveta, Sen. Mwaruma, but then there is no local produce to take to those aggregation parks. There needs to be sensitization from county governments to ensure that, as expected and envisioned in the notes to this particular programme, the produce is available. What are you aggregating if you do not have those products in the first place? Where is the meeting held to speak to people to say, “Okay, in this particular area, we want to strengthen poultry, dairy, avocado or whatever farming?” As of now, the investment to the produce needs to be already happening, so that in another few months, when the County Aggregation and Industrial Parks (CAIPs) are ready, the farmers and local cooperatives are ready with the produce. Unfortunately, unless there are governors who are more diligent than I know, then this is something that is of great concern to me."
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