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    "id": 465967,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/465967/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion. I would urge my fellow colleagues to particularly support this Motion and any other Motion that will be cushioning the rural poor from things that always stifle their development. Kenya is supposed to be 70 per cent an agricultural country. That 75 per cent agriculture that we are supposed to produce could help us deal with the issue of unemployment. If the Government set good prices for milk, I think that many young people who would otherwise be looking for jobs will take on activities like dairy farming and helping us then curb unemployment, because then it would be productive. But as it right now, milk production is not very lucrative. It does not make sense for the local farmer. I would like to urge my colleagues, that just like the Mover of this Motion is saying, we do whatever it takes to request the Government to urgently intervene. In fact, the tone of this Motion is very key; we are constantly producing milk and farmers are losing on prices and someone is walking away with all the money. We need to urgently intervene, whatever it takes. Intervening in terms of the farm produce prices is rather a short-term measure. We need to appreciate that apart from urgently intervening on the farm produce prices, we need to urge the Government to proceed with other things that would help in milk production."
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