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    "id": 775325,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for trying to defend the indefensible. You could see even from the body language the distinguished Senator was not even confident that he was challenging me because he knew I was speaking facts. This country must have taken the path of probity and honesty. The only reason why the distinguished Senator of Murang’a County was defending the CS is because he is from his community. I am sure he would have cared less if that CS was a Pokot, a Turkana or a Maasai. Madam Temporary Speaker, the education qualification of the people who will sit in this Council matters. I hope whoever is taking notes for the Senate Majority Leader who has taken his leave will bring amendments to that effect. We also want to see, under Clause 4 of the Bill, the functions of the Council better defined. This is because it is not enough when you just say that they will establish and maintain a Warehouse Receipt System that contributes towards structured trading of agricultural commodities. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a very good idea. In the olden days, for those of us who are of our age like you and the distinguished Senator for West Pokot, there was the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC), the Kenya Farmers Association (KFA) and the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB). You could go to the AFC and get a credit note, go to the KFA and collect fertilizers, seeds and other things, go plant your maize, deliver the produce to the NCPB who will then pay AFC. Then AFC will net out what they gave you and give you your money. The farmers operated in a stress-free environment until we fell into a World Bank trap called free market economy where everybody is left to the Almighty and the middlemen that ravage us. So, if we want to do this to the farmers, this Council, which is completely lacking, for example, can ensure that if there is a bumper maize harvest in West Pokot where a lot of maize is grown, the farmers can warehouse their maize there and the records are furnished to the National Disaster Management or other similar bodies. If maize is required in Kitui, you simply move the cereal there for consumption by the population. Those attendant details are lacking in this Bill and there is no provision that rules will properly be structured to govern this. The Bill that the Council will establish a central registry for the management of warehouse receipt transactions. This is good because farmers and whoever is keeping their goods in the warehouses must be properly documented. Though what is lacking is how you determine how much is levied from farmers when they take their produce to the warehouse, like my good friend from West Pokot. It The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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