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    "id": 374089,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/374089/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, I want hon. Members to listen to me and re-look at the whole AFLA Act. Hon. Speaker, for some very mischievous reasons, consultation was not done on the Bill that resulted in this Act. Sisal was lumped together with sugarcane. How do you mix the two? They want to bring under one Authority, the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya, the Sisal Board of Kenya, the Coconut Board of Kenya, the Kenya Sugar Board, the Coffee Board and the Kenya Tea Board. In my opinion, the agricultural corporations are sector-based and crop-based. Through the Kenya Tea Board, it is easier to do research on tea and market it. When you put together sisal and sugar, what are you doing? Sugar and sisal are grown in different parts of the country. Why take coconut from the coastal region to the people of Kericho, who serve tea? Therefore, I want hon. Members to critique the Act, and not just deal with the question of extension of its effective date that the Chairman of the Committee is seeking. Secondly, this exercise was donor-driven. How do you amalgamate all these corporations? How many Kenyans will lose their jobs, starting with the Managing Directors of those institutions to the most junior workers? Thirdly, you can imagine the bureaucracy that will be created for one Director-General to serve the Coffee Board of Kenya, the Kenya Sugar Board, the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya, the Sisal Board of Kenya"
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