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    "id": 850288,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/850288/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Chache South, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Onyonka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support my colleague who has just tabled this Petition. At some point, the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock will have to engage this House. The tea sector is in a mess. The problem is that even when our farmers are paid the bonus, the bonus paid out in some areas in Kenya is Kshs5 to Kshs8 more than in our areas. Kisii is a tea-growing area. Tea is the only cash crop left for our farmers. It is a very serious problem. I ask the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock that when they start interrogating this issue, we would like them to, first, get the stakeholders and hold public hearings on the same. That is because our Constitution requires that they do that. We want to know exactly what we need to do so that we can solve the problems affecting the tea sector. It is a weighty matter. Hon. Deputy Speaker, you will agree with me that in your constituency, money for cess used to be released by the KTDA and it went into fixing roads. Roads have been devolved to the county governments. Some of the counties have not fixed the roads where tea lorries pass through. Previously, the National Government - Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) used to build tea-buying centres but this has been devolved to the county governments. In my constituency, you will find farmers waiting for 12 hours if not 14 hours for the tea…"
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