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    "id": 676050,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/676050/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nooru",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2238,
        "legal_name": "Adan Mohamed Nooru",
        "slug": "adan-mohamed-nooru"
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    "content": "Act. At the same time, we are also struggling with the Mwongozo Policy of combining existing parastatals to reduce the wage bill which is still so high. It does not make sense to create other bodies yet we are working to reduce them. This Bill talks about regulation, production, packaging, and marketing of potato. All those functions have been devolved in one way or the other. The issue of regulating, producing and marketing of potato does not make any sense. The AFFA Act of 2013 and Section 13 of the Crops Act have covered all that has been mentioned in this Bill. Part I of the Bill talks of formation of a council to manage potato. Section VI of the Bill talks about the same functions duplicated from the AFFA Act, which creates a body mandated to do those functions. On the other hand, we have been trying to avoid separating production and marketing of potato from regulation. Potato can be one of the directorates under AFFA like any other crop, for example, the Tea Directorate. There is no need to create a council to only deal with potato. There is also the element of seeds covered in this Bill. We have Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), an internationally recognised body which looks at all the varieties of seeds and plants in this country. It does not make sense to have a body to do a function that is already being enacted in Parliament. It lacks logic to have another regulatory body to verify seeds of potato. The entire Bill is a duplication and repetition of the existing institutions."
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