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    "id": 305905,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/305905/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nyambati",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 116,
        "legal_name": "Walter Enock Osebe Nyambati",
        "slug": "walter-nyambati"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to support this Motion. It is important for the KPCU to go back to its owners, namely, the farmers of this country. It is important for the Government to support and empower farmers. It should ensure that the farmers are given freedom through the kind of work that they do. As opposed to putting the KPCU and other farmers’ SACCOs or unions under receivership, it is the responsibility of the Government and this House particularly to ensure that we help our farmers to strengthen their organizations, so that they can manage their own affairs. It is a big shame that a giant organization like the KPCU is removed from the hands of farmers and put under receivership because it has been mismanaged. We must blame ourselves as a Parliament, as a Government and as a country that instead of helping our farmers to move forward and looking forward to see how they can be helped, we are killing their unions, co-operatives and organizations, which is not right. Until and unless we wake up, as a country, and support the Ministry of Agriculture and other departments that are involved in agriculture, so that we can be self-sufficient in terms of production, whether we are talking about food sufficiency, exports in terms of cash crops like tea and others that we export, we will never survive as a nation. A Government which cannot feed its people has no business governing that country. So, it is extremely important that we review, as a country, the on goings in the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Livestock Development and Marketing and support them fully, so that they are able to produce enough for this country. The organizations which manage the produce of this country should be safeguarded selflessly, so that as a country, we can move. I beg to support."
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