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"content": "This is something that through this debate, we want to either push the Mover to improve on it or ensure that subsequently, once we pass the Bill, the rules and regulations that will then accompany this Bill will capture all those loopholes. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, (j) says that the Council will prescribe fees and other charges payable for examination, inspection, issuance and renewal of registrations and licenses under this Act. Again, nothing could be more important. This is because if the Council will not be in charge of the fees that are charged, then one warehouse, for example, in Lugari in Kakamega County, might choose to charge a farmer a fee that is reasonablefor all those services. However, when this farmer stores the same cereals in the neighbouringTrans-Nzoia County, if there is no standard, then there, they might make it prohibitive so that when a farmer does not have a warehouse that has space in his county, for example, when he moves to the next warehouse, he is shortchanged and makes no profit. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Clause 26 speaks to the establishment of a central registry which shall be operated by the Council. The purpose of this is so critical because the information in small warehouses all over the country, unless you have a central registry that has a record of that, it is akin to operating a computer system without backup. Once the computers fails or are stolen, the way they have been stolen in Kakamega County without a back up, you have no idea what was originally stored in that computer. Therefore, farmers who had kept their cereals at the various warehouses would end up losing. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Clause 29 is attempting to obligate a warehouse operator to deliver. This is critical because a farmer comes and delivers 50 tonnes of beans grown with hard labour of Kakamega County. At the time of demanding that I want the dues in kind or the actual beans to come, the warehouse operator tells you: “You brought here 50 tonnes of beans, but they have been destroyed by weevils. We will only give you half of it.” Then, the receipt holder will have lost out his entire farming for that year or half of that year. However, when you obligate the operator, it means that the operator is aware that when the farmer comes to make a claim after six months, if he brought 50 tonnes of beans, then 50 tonnes of beans the warehouse operator shall give. This is because he is obligated. Where he is unable to give because of whatever reasons, then he must give it in form of cash. I am so proud that the National Assembly has come up with this Bill. I congratulate them again and again hoping that they will move away from exercising their tyranny of numbers in supporting the thieving and corruption by the Jubilee Government and expend their energies and numbers on such a good course. I support."
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