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    "id": 359116,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Muia",
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        "legal_name": "Regina Nthambi Muia",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I rise to support agro-based parastatals. With the devolved governments, these should not be burdened with debts. If you look at the Motion, the issue of farmers producing all the inputs and yet at the end of the day they do not benefit--- For example, in my county we have a cotton factory. What happens is that sometimes farmers deliver their produce in good time but they take so long to be paid until they are unable to deliver in the second round. So, we are not going to talk about this so much because you will remember that the original budget for county governments was reduced. If they were left to clear all these debts, they would not even carry out any development. I am asking the Government to inherit all the debts because all the county governments are young. Some of the counties cannot do anything for the next five years because some of them do not have ways of raising revenue to sustain their counties. So we are asking that the Government waives all the debts so that the counties can start afresh. I will not talk more because once some information is given out by more than three hon. Members, I cannot stand here and start repeating what has been said. All that has been said is for the burdens to be removed from county governments."
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