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    "id": 274924,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/274924/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
        "slug": "margaret-kamar"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me the opportunity to join other hon. Members in supporting this Motion. In supporting, I would like to thank Mr. Namwamba for being on the side of farmers at this very critical moment. I support this Motion because the history of the KCC is well known to those of us who were raised by farmers, that is those of us whose school fees were paid from the sale of milk. The history is very sad because in those days farmers never sold just raw milk; they sold processed milk. The farmers of this country were extremely advanced compared to any other. In fact, while we are talking about value addition today, our farmers used to do value addition in the 1970s. They did value addition because they were paid for the fresh milk, the cheese they sold and for the powder milk they sold to the army. So the whole processing of milk was in the hands of farmers through the KCC. The KCC was the only property that farmers in the North Rift owned. This is because the grain production was erratic as it is today where drought sometimes caused failure of crops, but they used their failed crops to feed their animals and it was out of that that they raised their children and took them to school. The only thing our fathers remember is the KCC because that is what enriched them, prospered their families and sent all of us to school."
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