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    "id": 799988,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Langat",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Andrew Langat",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to support this Petition. So many things have already been said by Sen. Cheruiyot but the truth of the matter is that the multinational companies are very inhuman in the way they treat the people of Bomet and Kericho. We used to sympathise a bit because most of our youth used to be employed in those particular companies. Of late, they have introduced machines that pluck tea and that has rendered the youth who used to earn their living from those particular companies jobless. They have also been underpaying people. This has been evidenced through various strikes that have been taking place more often than not. Through the struggles of people in Bomet, sometimes back, they gave out a small piece of land to around 20,000 people to live on. They are so congested in a place known as Chepchobas and the same people no longer benefit from the company through employment. The lease terms by the multinational companies are not clear to the locals. We have been trying to ask and they gave some information that is not very clear. We will support, give some information and take Members of the committee that will work on this Petition round, so that they know how much the people of Kericho and Bomet have suffered through these particular multinational companies. They make our county appear to be rich but the people do not benefit. Kericho and Bomet counties should be considered marginalised but nobody can believe it because when people see the tea, they presume that we are rich but most of our productive land went to the whites and we do not benefit anymore. I support this particular Petition."
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