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    "id": 860854,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said, the Committee engaged other stakeholders apart from the farmers. We engaged the CS for Agriculture and he agreed with us that it was Parliament that amalgamated all the crop directorates into AFA. So, it is within our mandate as Parliament to separate them if we feel that it is the way to go. That is what we, as a Committee, have done. We were able to listen to the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA), the Tea Research Institute, the Competitions Authority, the Kenya Tea Growers Association, the East African Tea Trade Association who do the tea brokerage services in Mombasa and the Attorney General of Kenya. The Attorney General promised to come back to us. One of the key challenges that people have never been able to unravel is that KTDA was set up thorough a Cabinet memo. As we all know, we cannot amend a Cabinet memo on the Floor of the House. Despite farmers having contributed through their sweat and blood for all the wealth that KTDA has, when they want to find recourse in the system, they are brought to the fact that they are now managed under the Companies Act just like Safaricom Kenya Limited, East African Breweries Limited, among others. Unfortunate, many of the tea farmers are not literate enough to understand the operations of a company. It is, therefore, easy for someone to take advantage of their ignorance and misuse their investments."
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