{"id":501703,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/501703/?format=json","text_counter":26,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms.) Mathenge","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":77,"legal_name":"Esther Murugi Mathenge","slug":"esther-murugi"},"content":"3 Tuesday 18th November, 2014 regulation by the national Government since the coffee sector is not an exclusively county government function; THAT, efforts to engage the county government on the said issue have been fruitless, thus exposing farmers to continued liabilities and debts, which impact adversely on their major source of income; THAT, coffee farmers in Nyeri County have reasonable grounds to justify that the manner in which coffee production is being handled by the county government is not only fraudulent and illegal but also economically unviable; and, THAT, issues in respect of which this petition is made are not pending before any court of law, constitutional or legal body, I pray that the National Assembly, through the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives, intervenes:- (i) to have the petitioners provided with a detailed account of the coffee produced since the introduction of the Nyeri County Government marketing initiative; (ii) recommends a full disclosure of all the agreements, memoranda of understanding and contracts with third parties and coffee farmers by Nyeri County as well as the audited accounts of the coffee sales by the county; and, (iii) causes the involvement of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority in regulating marketing and sale of the coffee crop in Nyeri County."}