{"id":490619,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/490619/?format=json","text_counter":48,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Murkomen","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":440,"legal_name":"Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen","slug":"kipchumba-murkomen"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, first of all, I would like to congratulate the Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries for coming up with very innovating ways of solving problems. When you have a problem of this nature it is useful to sit with stakeholders than to come up with an answer written by a Cabinet Secretary or a Permanent Secretary. This is a good example for the rest of us who are in other committees in the Senate. The Chairperson talked about the people they have invited. I would like him to consider inviting Governors of counties that grow tea and the County Executive Committee Members (CECs) in charge of Agriculture. I am saying this because agriculture is a devolved function apart from the policy. County governments play a major role in terms of finding new markets for this tea and working with farmers wherever they are. Mr. Chairman, consider inviting the Governors and Deputy Governors."}