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"speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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"content": "The office of the Legal Counsel of the Senate is helping me at the moment to draft a law that reviews the Food and Agriculture Authorities Act. In the draft Bill, I am answering one of the prayers of the Petition in so far as dealing with this issue. I think we did not think through clearly when we amalgamated various agencies that were dealing with agriculture or food departments like macadamia, coconut, coffee. We created a huge entity called Agriculture and Food Authority that is run by one officer at the top. Tea, coffee, macadamia and other crops were relegated to be run by a small director down there, and it becomes an amorphous entity. In fact, one of the reasons the sugar sector has a big problem today is because the Kenya Sugar Board, which was dedicated to perform the functions that are related to the sugar sector, is now a small department under the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA). Under my Bill we go back The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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