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    "id": 831083,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13441,
        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
        "slug": "josphat-kabinga-wachira-2"
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    "content": "I support this Bill hoping that a number of things will be done. We hope that there will be a clear and deliberate way of educating our small- scale farmers in the warehouses, so that they can take advantage of them. We should not create another layer of brokers who would benefit from such warehouses, who would be buying rice and other produce from farmers and quickly take them to warehouses and then rush to banks to get money to trade. I am hoping that some measures will be put in place to ensure that we create awareness and properly educate our small- scale farmers to be able to benefit from those warehouses. The other area that I hope the implementing agency will be looking into is licensing. Although this is left in the hands of the county executive officers, I hope that there will be proper procedures and mechanisms to ensure that we license only people of integrity, people who are out to help our farmers and people who are not out to just enrich themselves. I hope that strict measures will be put in place so that only those people who produce serious bonds and insurance from reputable insurance companies and banks are licensed. The provision of the county executive officers licensing and notifying the warehousing council after seven days is a good one, but it is not enough. We need to be very clear on that. We have had banks going down with people’s money. We do not want warehouses that will come, collect farmers produce and run away, close down or mishandle the produce and when they are The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}