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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr. Khalwale)",
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    "content": "The wives are adults, but I can kill you for my children, the wives could very well take care of themselves. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I cannot end my contribution in seconding this Motion without mentioning something about Cabinet Secretary Wycliffe Oparanya. He is not my friend. He is one man against whom we have competed longest in my career and, therefore, we are serious political adversaries. Thank God the elders brought us together sometime last year and we buried the hatchet. It is going to remain that way. Why I want to celebrate Oparanya is that he has breathed new life into this Ministry. In fact, there are people who think this Ministry of Cooperatives only came around when His Excellency President William Ruto made Oparanya Cabinet Secretary. This Ministry has always been there, but all of a sudden Hon. Oparanya is there and is doing a good job. This is why sometimes I want to disagree with my younger brother, Sen. Sifuna, when he doubts that Baba gave President William Ruto experts to help him run the Government. It is true, because Oparanya is behaving like a typical expert in matters of cooperatives. I have seen the coffee sector, which was there pre-independence in Kakamega, Vihiga, Bungoma and in many other parts of the country, especially in Nyanza and Western. They had all died, but every day on social media, I see Oparanya there doing this or that. We must give him space. I only urge Members of the National Assembly Budget and Appropriations Committee to make sure that they put sufficient funds at the disposal of Hon. Oparanya, so that we have enough funds. I also appreciate the fact that there is something they call the Coffee Cherry Advance Revolving Fund (CCARF). However, we should have enough funds to make sure that the farmers who want to rejuvenate and reinvigorate these factories of coffee can get good seedlings. I also urge members of the farming community, especially those interested in coffee in Kakamega to not be in a hurry to plant seedlings just because of the hype I see going on now. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have had an opportunity to sit with the Senator for Kirinyaga who appears to understand coffee farming very much and he has confirmed that if you prepare, get the right seedling, measure it against the soils and so on, your plant grows faster. With those remarks, I second."
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