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    "id": 229077,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/229077/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimeto",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimeto",
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    "content": "I wish the Minister was here to listen to me. Ministers should always be in the House. There is one Minister here but others have gone to places that we do not know. Mr. Kibaki should sack those Ministers immediately and bring on board those who can come to Parliament every time. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is a lot of rainfall now. Is the Ministry of Agriculture prepared to take advantage of it or we shall be importing food come April or June? This is an agricultural country. Has he given wananchi fertilizers and seedlings so that they can produce food for this country, or are we waiting to import food from other countries? There is the New Kenya Co-operative Creameries (KCC) in Sotik where dairy farmers take their milk. We have run that KCC for a long time. It is pathetic to note that a lot of milk is being returned to the farmers. The Minister for Agriculture and the Minister for Co-operative Development and Marketing should understand that we have been running that KCC for a long time, but some people are now mismanaging it and yet is covers Sotik, Buret and Bomet areas. We want the Minister for Co-operative Development and Marketing to understand that milk is being imported from other countries and being processed in the New KCC in Sotik. Therefore, milk from farmers in the area is being returned to them. What type of management is that? We are completely perturbed with the way the Minister for Co-operative Development and Marketing is running the New KCC in Sotik. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me come to the issue of pyrethrum. The Pyrethrum Board of Kenya is said to have been dissolved. Since it was dissolved, the pyrethrum farmers who delivered pyrethrum from 2000 up to now, have not been paid. Does that mean that the farmers will not be paid? The Minister for Agriculture should immediately pay the farmers. At the same time, members of the board should be elected. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the board of directors of the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya should be pyrethrum farmers, instead of picking people who are not pyrethrum farmers to run the board. It seems they are trying to steal farmers' money. Pyrethrum farmers should be let to run the board."
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