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    "id": 274925,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/274925/?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, it is very sad that in the changes that have taken place in KCC from the original KCC, the New KCC to the current KCC which is a Government parastatal, farmers are almost forgotten. I support this Motion because this is an asset that has owners. We cannot privatize something that has ownership. The ownership is known. The co-operative societies of the farmers are known wherever they are. If today we ask farmers to give us their registers right from the local areas, I am sure even the farmers of Chepkorio where I was born will give their register and the ownership. When these changes took place, the supposedly collapse of the KCC came, and people lost money when they were exiting. There is money which is still supposed to be given to these farmers. So, when we talk of the KCC having debts, the farmers are right to say that they do not know how they acquired these debts because they did not owe anybody anything. At the time, they were owed money for their last collection of milk which they have not received up to now. I would like to urge my colleague Minister that while we move towards ensuring that farmers get their rightful shares, they need to look at a few things. First, they must look at the original shareholders; farmers. That is where it should belong. We should not attract other shareholder arising from businessmen who would like to make money from the farmers’ sweat. We do not want to have the business community unless the farmers themselves would like to have them in. We would like this to be a company that belongs 100 per cent to the original owners who are the farmers, so that they only attract shareholders who are also farmers."
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