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"content": "that he can be paid a gratuity after serving as the Cabinet Secretary. We should not allow that blackmail to happen in this country. Our politics must be hygienic. It is embarrassing for our farmers from Nyandarua, Nandi, and even Kericho. For the first time, when President William Ruto took office, fertilizer which was Kshs7,000, was subsidized to Kshs2,500. All farmers, not only maize farmers, but tea and even sugar cane farmers, can now access fertilizer at the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB). This year, to report as a farmer, we have not had any scandals involving fake fertilizer, unlike when Hon. Linturi was in office. It means that he was the problem. I was in Lessos, Mosoriot and Malaba NCPB, there are all types of fertilizer and they are up to standard. So, who was the problem in the Ministry of Agriculture? It was the Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Linturi. This year, even in Bomet County, we have not had any complaint on the supply of fertilizer. I want to challenge the counties. I know other counties are doing the same. You know, my county is on autopilot. We have an inept Governor called Hon. Sang who has decided to autopilot everything. If my county can do the last-mile distribution of fertilizer, it will assist farmers. I want to challenge governors across the country, including Governor Stephen Sang, Governor Barchok and Governor Badilisha, to do the last-mile distribution of fertilizer to save farmers on transport costs, so that it becomes cheaper at the end of the day. I want to challenge NCPB to ensure that there is the topdressing fertilizer, the Urea and CAN to ensure that farmers have access to the fertilizer. I expected the Standing Committee on Agriculture to tell us about that. Finally, I saw the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Hon. Mutahi Kagwe in Kericho County discussing issues of bonuses. We want to be told which mathematics and computations are being used. When you go to another region in this country, they get the highest bonus of up to Kshs68, but when you come to Nandi County, we are getting bonuses as low as Kshs17. What magic are they doing in Mombasa that we are being told that the tea from Western Kenya, amounting to Kshs34 billion, has not yet been sold, but tea from one region has been sold? I hope Hon. Mutahi Kagwe is not doing a Public Relations (PR) exercise in Kericho County as we speak. He must tell the farmers of Kericho, Nandi, Bomet and Western Kenya counties, why we are getting less bonuses? You, Sen. Aaron Cheruiyot and I know that there is one constant question that our farmers ask us - why are our bonuses in this region lower than in other regions? I challenge the Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Mutahi Kagwe, that as he is working on the issue of tea, he must tell us what the problem is with this issue of tea. I hope that as we do tea sector reforms, the friend of Sen. Methu will tell us why he stole and objected the tea sector reforms where farmers should have reaped. I remember Sen. Aaron Cheruiyot hosted us for the tea conference. We must reap the fruits of the guaranteed minimum returns for the betterment of a tea farmer, a sugarcane farmer, a coffee farmer and a maize farmer. With your indulgence, I support all those Statements. I thank you."
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