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    "id": 542780,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to state, at the outset, that for a long time we have been having companies, parastatals and bodies owned by the Government. We also have rules, regulations and laws that govern these particular bodies on management, the use of public funds and procedures to be followed when dealing with public funds. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this country started off by creating several parastatals and authorities which were dealing with matters affecting farmers. We have had several parastatals which were meant to save farmers. We had the Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC) which was supposed to look at matters affecting farmers, making the best seeds and helping farmers identify the right breed of cows. For a long time these parastatals have become milking cows for our people. We also created other parastatals. The Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) was created to help farmers acquire loans but it collapsed. Several other parastatals which were meant to help farmers achieve their goals have since long collapsed or have become moribund or no longer serve the very goal which was meant to be served. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for some time, maize and dairy farmers lost all that they had. The only sector that existed and was earning farmers a lot of money was the sugar and tea industry. But as we speak, the tea industry has collapsed; it is gone. Today sugar farmers are facing imminent losses because that sector has failed to help them. The only reason was because the factories and industries serving these farmers were being looted left, right and centre. The only reason is because nobody cares. People are not patriotic and people do not care whether the money they are looting belongs to the people. What they want is to enrich themselves. When an idea came and that was at a time when they wanted to privatise the Kenya Cooperative Creameries (KCC) - I do not know what happened because KCC kept The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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