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    "id": 1565418,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of Interior and National Administration should form what we call an anti-coffee theft unit to protect our farmers the way we have done for anti-stock theft unit. You have seen deaths even in Nyamira, Murang’a and in Meru, where your Deputy Speaker comes from. Coffee is a matter of life and death. The Ministry of Interior and National Administration must form anti-coffee theft police unit at least, so that our farmers can feel safe. I think also the Ministry of Interior and National Administration must give powers to the Inspector General of Police, which of course is independent, to have a sector where the armed police officers are providing 24-hour surveillance and security in our coffee factories across the country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is because you remember the story of Chepkube during the era of President Kenyatta I. I know the “youth leader,” Sen. (Dr.) Oburu Odinga, is a custodian of history of this country. Coffee was being treated like gold. People were dying because of it. At some point during the last regime, some of us had our bodyguards withdrawn because we had different views with the regime. We had even thought that we needed to form a parliamentary police unit, so that they are not subject to few people within powers who can withdraw bodyguards that offer VIP protection. This is something we suggested; it is not something I am bringing up."
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