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    "content": "verifying the quality are the same people and they are not responsible to anybody but to themselves. They carry the money and purchase fertiliser to bring it here, regardless of whether it is good quality or not. How can someone sit down and draw such a Bill with the experience we have? We want work to be done by the Ministry. We now want the private sector to get involved. Let us not forget when we used to have control of the hard currency. It was impossible to see a dollar at the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK). When it was set free, you can walk to a bank and write a cheque of US$100,000 and you will be paid at the counter. When the controls were there, you could not even withdraw US$3,000 to make a trip to the United Kingdom. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Board is supposed to ensure that there are adequate retail outlets in all counties where farmers can access fertiliser. Who is going to supply fertilizer to distributors within villages and small markets? Is it going to be the same board, the same sugar board or the same coffee board? You will find that those who are being financed are agents of the same fat cats. Those who do not have connections do not have an idea on how to steal. They would apply for their licence and spend all the money they have but at the end of the day, they will have no license. This Bill says that there would be collaboration with agricultural research institutions, universities and other stakeholders. So, what is the business of this board? Again, they are going back to well established institutions to ask them to do the work that they are already doing then they want to be given resources. This same board is supposed to go to the counties and advice them. We want devolution to succeed. With those few remarks, I oppose."
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