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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Moiben, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Phylis Bartoo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. To the students in the House, I welcome you to this very important House where laws of the land are made. My name is Professor Phylis Bartoo, Member of Parliament for Moiben Constituency. Before I became a Member of Parliament, I was a professor of Linguistics at Egerton University for 25 years. I welcome you and encourage you to work hard in school. Be disciplined and focused and eventually you may find yourselves here or become very senior members of the Republic of Kenya, including becoming the President of the Republic of Kenya. Karibuni sana and feel at home. Hon. Temporary Speaker, regarding fertilisers, I am a beneficiary of farming. I got a chance to go to school because my parents were farmers. It is important that we encourage local manufacturers because we, as a country, have come of age. We have the best researchers in the country who can test our soil and determine the kind and quality of fertiliser we require. We no longer need to depend on imports from other countries which we are not sure of their quality. We cannot control their entry because sometimes our officers at the entry points are compromised. It is planting season right now in my county, and we are supposed to plant. We should have started even as early as last month. The stress which farmers are undergoing in the North Rift is huge. In Moiben Constituency, I have three cooperatives tasked with the responsibility of distributing fertilisers to farmers. At the moment, the farmers are queuing at the Progressive Farmers’ Cooperative Society, but there is no fertiliser. When you go to Tuiyotich Farmers’ Cooperative Society in Sergoit Ward, the farmers are queuing, but there is no fertiliser. There is also no fertiliser at the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) in Eldoret. If we can encourage and support our local manufacturers to manufacture fertiliser, they will ensure that it is available and timely throughout the year. Our farmers will not be waiting until the planting season so that they can rush to the NCPB to queue. Sometimes, some of them go back without getting it which becomes very expensive. If this fertiliser is available and it is manufactured by the local manufacturers, it will create employment for our young people. If we will have several manufacturers pitched in several parts of Kenya, all these young people, scholars and researchers who have gone to school, studied and are experts in agriculture, will be utilised. This is also another way of creating employment. It will ease the burden of the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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