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    "id": 699803,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Barua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1529,
        "legal_name": "Ejidius Njogu Barua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I had pressed the intervention button to make a request based on my earlier request for a Statement last year. Sometime last year, I requested a Statement from the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries in connection with coffee which was sold through the Kenya Planters Cooperative Union (KPCU) by a farmers’ co-operative society in my constituency. The society is called Kiarithaini Coffee Farmers Society. They sold coffee worth Kshs14 million in 2008 through the KPCU. As we speak, the farmers have not received their money and yet, it is almost nine years since then. When the CS appeared before the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives, he promised to give a position--- I think I will repeat because the Leader of the Majority Party was engaging Hon. Speaker. Sometime last year, I requested for a Statement from the CS, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. It was in connection with coffee which was sold by a farmers’ co- operative society from Gichugu Constituency, through KPCU. Now the Deputy Leader of the Minority Party is consulting Hon. Speaker. I want Hon. Speaker to listen to this. They sold the coffee in 2008 worth Kshs14 million. Up to now, the farmers have not been paid. When the CS appeared before the Committee in March this year, he promised to give a position on the money within 30 days. We have not received a position six months down the line and the farmers are in distress. I am raising this issue so that we can be given direction on how those farmers, who have suffered so much for so long, can get their money together with interest. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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