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    "content": "has a lot of idle warehouses in Nakuru, Laikipia and Meru. The same applies for Kenya Sugar Board (KSB) and other public bodies. The ideal thing will be that after the passage of this Bill, the proposed Warehousing Receipts System Council should convert some of those idle public facilities to fit into this system. It can even acquire some of these facilities because some of them are moribund and are no longer operational. These facilities should be refurbished, modernized and their equipment increased. This will bring down the cost of storage. We have not brought it out in this Bill that the storage will not be for free. The person storing the product will pay a small fee to the public or private body that will store the product. If we acquire most of these warehouses that belong to moribund institutions, it will cut the cost that farmers and other people who want to keep their products in warehouses will pay, because they are already existing public warehouses. It will even reduce the number of private warehouses. If there are more private players in such a market, we might end up having the same problem of exploitation, where the storage prices are way behold the affordability of many farmers. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, finally, other than acquisition of the existing public storage facilities of moribund public institutions, this Bill envisages that the private sector will also play a role. I am convinced that if there is a good private investor who wants to offer storage facilities at a small fee, they will still make their money and also save many people, especially in the rural areas, lots of trouble which is associated with harvest and post-harvest losses. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, once again, I want to thank all my colleagues for supporting this Bill. I beg to move and request that, under Standing Order No. 54 (3), you defer the putting of the question to another day, because we do not have the necessary numbers to allow us to take a vote."
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