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    "id": 374099,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. wa Kabando",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 31,
        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Motion. Hon. Speaker, very many of the laws that were passed as the last Parliament was coming to sunset, were meant to comply with the implementation of the Constitution. This was, indeed, one of them. The need to overhaul operations of State corporations in the agriculture sector need not be gainsaid. It is important to improve their governance and ensure that the myriad problems that people experience, particularly the farmers, are resolved through a legislation that will bring synergy. Therefore, the request by the Committee and even the presentation by the Cabinet Secretary, have a lot of merit. It was meant for the Departmental Committee to take stock of the situation and take responsibility over this change. The membership needs to internalize the intricacies within. It is also true that not every stakeholder even in those State corporations will be keen. I do not think the issue here is very much to do with job protection. This is because they could be 100 jobs, but the agricultural sector could create one million jobs every year which are well managed and which are as a result of good governance and stability in the sector. If you look at all the subsectors where we are talking about coffee, sugarcane, tea and pyrethrum, indeed, the small scale farmers are not at the same level. As much as this law has some deficiencies and we need to be prudent in its operationalization it is only true that some draconian statutes need complete overhaul in order for them to be in"
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