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    "id": 1565388,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1565388/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "I think when you consider this Bill, I will be requesting that those responsible take it upon themselves to make sure that the question of value addition is seriously addressed. Perhaps, we should even make it illegal like European countries have done, that you cannot export raw materials. We should try to just make sure that we do whatever it takes to export finished products from Kenya. This idea of raw materials has created poverty among our farmers. If you go to Central Kenya where they are growing coffee and look at what the farmer takes home against a tin of Nescafe, you will find that this farmer hardly makes anything. Let us really try to think of ways we can invest in the coffee industry on the value addition systems, the factories and so on, so that we can begin exporting Kenyan coffee as a finished product and ensuring that we get maximum value from the raw material. Sometimes most of the value comes from value addition and not necessarily in raw material. However, I pray that these studies that have come up showing that there are many areas in this country that can grow coffee and do it profitably, are also looked at and investments are prepared for it. This is to ensure that the culture, fear and the politics of coffee locally can be opened up to many sectors. We also need to develop a proper industry, right from the farm to the coffee cup. We should have Kenyan control."
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