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    "id": 719578,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/719578/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tonui",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1242,
        "legal_name": "Ronald Kiprotich Tonui",
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    "content": "Thank you. I have lost some time on points of argument and not on points of order, but I wish to continue that we feel that there is a lot of discrimination in the tea sector. We have real challenges in the tea sector. Farmers are unable to service their loans which they used in the construction of tea factories and the Government has not come in to assist. Some factories in my place such as the one by Stegro SACCO is facing real financial challenges of servicing loans from the Cooperative Bank and other banks, but the Government is not providing any relief, the way it did to farmers in the sugar and coffee sub-sectors. I wish that from now onwards we remove this discrimination and take care of all farmers by ensuring that we write off all the debts which are bringing a lot of stress either in the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) run factories or those privately owned by SACCOS and farmers themselves. We need to assist them. I believe the Government will pay attention to this so that we capture It in the next Budget and write off debts in the tea sub-sector."
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