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    "id": 358547,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/358547/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "I want to say at the outset that the intention of this Motion is very noble. The intention of the Mover of the Motion is to provide a mechanism through which we can revive our agro-based industries. The challenge that I see, which many hon. Members also see, is that we are saying that these agro-based industries are already facing challenges. They have incurred a lot of liabilities and a good number of them have been going through many problems. Even if the Government were to off-set those debts and transfer these bodies to the devolved units, what guarantees are there that these bodies will pick up? The devolved governments are just starting. In fact, the county governments are in transition. Hon. Members realise this from the debate that we have had here on the roles of the Senate and the National Assembly. This is also playing out at lower levels. We have chosen Executives at that level, who do not even know their roles. I can tell this from the kind of work that some of them are doing. They still do not know their roles. You find somebody who has been appointed an executive in charge of water walking around and talking about energy or something else. So, this is a very good Motion, but it has come a little too early in the day. We need to heavily invest in our agro-based industries. Just yesterday I saw on the internet that one Kenyan product is causing a lot of excitement in the USA, that is the green coffee berry. This is because a lot of people there are suffering from obesity. There are women who are trying to be size eight, and so they invest a lot of money in exercises, gymnasiums and all manner of products that enable them to cut wait. Finally they have discovered that with the green coffee berry you do not even need to exercise. You can sit"
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