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    "id": 831071,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/831071/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Migori CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Pamela Ochieng",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Pamela Awuor Ochieng",
        "slug": "pamela-awuor-ochieng"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This House sometimes confuses Members. I was saying that if we allow farmers to be owners of their own produce in their own warehouses, then we will see a scenario where losses such as the ones that have been experienced in the past by members of the public, when the NCPB takes their produce and they are not paid on time, will not arise. We will encourage our farmers to be better managers of their own produce. I would, therefore, like to support this Bill and only request that upon its implementation, farmers are more empowered to manage the whole process. Whichever bodies that will be put in place should work with a lot of transparency and accountability, so that we do not end up with scenarios where we have losses in those warehouses. I want to submit that it is a good Bill. It can solve many problems for the farmers. It will add value to our crops and our farm produce so that we do not throw them away when the prices are low. That is because our farmers do not have places to store them. My only prayer, as we move on, would be that, as we implement it, we should make sure that those warehouses are spread all over the country. They should not be brought to Nairobi again but in the farms where our farmers are living and can access them. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support."
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