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    "id": 823487,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/823487/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "The coffee industry has been struggling for a very long time, but because of Government intervention, coffee farming has been kept afloat. Coffee farmers, a number of times, have had waiver on loans. They have had their loans written off using the taxpayers’ money. Remember we allocated money to bail out the Mumias Sugar Company, which was a good thing. We also gave money to the miraa industry, but I think it has been embezzled because I have not heard about it since it was given. In fact, it was money that we just threw away like money you would throw to an ocean. Miraa farmers, I am sure, have not benefited. We have even spent money on struggling businesses like Uchumi Supermarket. We have paid a lot of money to bail out Uchumi, which has not even been successful. We have also paid money to bail out Kenya Airways, which is our national carrier. The money that we pay to coffee, sugarcane and miraa farmers, who are Kenyans anyway, comes from all of us. It comes from North Eastern, Nyanza, Coast and Western. Therefore, farmers from the Coast are also entitled to consideration by us as a country. It would be wrong for us to make decisions in a way that looks like we are favouring some regions and not others. That is why at times you find some regions in this country very bitter with governments in power. That is why you find some regions saying that they would rather stay in the opposition than join a government that does not help them."
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