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    "id": 242862,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/242862/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. Okundi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Philip Okoth Okundi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to join my colleagues in congratulating Dr. Ojiambo for bringing this Bill. In fact, she led our team for nearly three years, pleading for this Bill to be passed. Cotton is grown in almost half of poverty stricken areas in Kenya, and majority of our people live there. Therefore, this Bill is so important! It will reverse the trend of poverty in this country. Now that we have passed this Bill, Parliament has taken a crucial step to revive the cotton industry, which collapsed along time ago. I think that is fantastic. I would like to thank the Minister for Agriculture for working very hard. He talked to us and we agreed on a number of amendments to this Bill. He has also been very positive towards this Bill. He should now push very hard for this Bill to be given assent by the President, so that it can be effective as quickly as possible. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the last Budget, there was an allocation of Kshs250 million to revive the cotton industry. This year, I am not so sure of what has been allocated, but I understand that there is something. This is an area where the Government should stand firm and take the necessary steps to revive the cotton industry."
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