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    "id": 70017,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/70017/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kaino",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 32,
        "legal_name": "Boaz Kipchumba Kaino",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to present a Petition on grant by the Government of Republic of Kenya to the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya (PBK). We, the undersigned 300 farmers located in the Rift Valley, Central and Nyanza provinces that depend on pyrethrum for livelihood, draw the attention of the House to the following. Whereas the pyrethrum industry was liberalized in 1997 exposing the PBK to unfair competition; whereas the Board was not cushioned from this unfair completion; coupled with mismanagement at the Board leading to inability to pay pyrethrum farmers for debts amounting to millions of shillings; whereas the farmers have been impoverished leaving them with no means of livelihood leading to abject poverty; whereas pyrethrum prices and demand continue to rise yet farmers cannot plant pyrethrum due to old debts owed by the PBK; recognizing the opportunity to support the farmers and the economy of this country; in this humble Petition pray that the Government of the Republic of Kenya urgently considers addressing the financial and operational problems facing the pyrethrum industry including payment for flower deliveries and farmers arrears for delivered crop to the PBK and take specific measures like injection of working capital and acquisition of a new extraction plant for the Board in order to rejuvenate the industry and improve the economic welfare of the pyrethrum farmers; and petitioners will ever pray. While presenting this Petition, I would like to say that millions of Kenyans depended on this pyrethrum. It is a foreign currency earning crop. It has brought foreign exchange in the country. It is because of mismanagement that the poor farmers in the provinces I mentioned above, that the Government has not given money to the PBK. This Petition requests the Government to inject about Kshs1.2 billion to this industry so that this Board could pay the farmers."
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