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"speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
"speaker_title": "The Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
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"legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am saying this because sometimes we convert ownership only to attract a lot of failures. A businessman will not be interested in production the way the farmer is interested. The pain of producing milk is only felt by the producers themselves. The challenges that they face in raising their animals are only known to them. So, it is very important that we do not mix the issue of milk production and business ventures that our business community would want to go into. We would like to have improvements, but we know that the sector has been extremely rich. It is very sad that the sector that used to consume milk from the KCC may be having imported products today. The KCC of those days, as I mentioned earlier, used to even sell their products to the Kenya Army. We know that the Kenya Army has expanded and should be consuming dairy products directly from the farmers. But when we have middlemen or processing plants that are owned by businessmen, then definitely, our farmers will not get their due profits from their products. It is very important, therefore, that as the Motion reads the shareholders who should be considered in the next venture should be farmers themselves. For that reason, I would like to support the Motion that we do not sell the shares outside the farming community. It should be exclusively for farmers and unless the farmers are not able to afford the shares, only then should we sell to anybody else."
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