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    "id": 374199,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Langat",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 384,
        "legal_name": "Benjamin Kipkirui Langat",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a pretty simple Motion that we give the Cabinet Secretary time to adjust themselves and see how they can implement this Act. The request for extension of time is reasonable to the extent that even us in Parliament, we came through a transition period and our Budget Process was not done as usual. Therefore, this request by the Cabinet Secretary that we give him time to sort himself out is reasonable. We need to support. Having said that, the Act as it is today, as has been said, has a lot of issues. The issues are so fundamental that even the time that the Chairperson is requesting is not enough. The sectors of this economy are so different in terms of their levels of development. Therefore, I would plead with the Chairman to allow amendments at the Committee Stage, so that we can extend time to one year or two years, so that we can re- look at these issues properly and soberly. I agree that at the time we passed the Bill in the Tenth Parliament, the House was in the mood of changes. It was in the mood of bringing changes to the Constitution, so that anybody who opposed was seen to be anti the new Constitution. The mood of this Eleventh Parliament is sober and the Members are willing to deal with these things soberly. These issues are fundamental. For example, where I come from and my friend from South Mugirango, we grow tea. We also grow a bit of sugarcane. If there is a sector which has remained stable for a long time when others were dying is the tea sector. Out of the other crops, it is the only crop that has been performing well. We only need to encourage it as opposed to using it to subsidize the other crops which are not doing well. If we want to save the Government’s money, then we should look at the sectors which are not doing well, for example, pyrethrum and then we can merge them, so that when we are giving support, we give support to more than one sector. But sectors like the tea sector should not be merged. Coffee was just about to do very well, but if we lump it together with other sectors, the attention that has been given to the coffee farmers will cease to be there. Therefore, we need more time to re-look at the Act itself, so that we do not interfere with the sectors that are earning some income for this country and providing employment opportunities. Given the issues that have been raised, I want to ask the"
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