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    "id": 86572,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for East African Community",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was carried away by passion because I like demonstrating what I want to say. I was asking what are all these layers of managers at the top who really do not add value for? What do the zonal managers manage? At the factory level all the areas that require management have people, but there is a guy who hangs around called a zonal manager whose work you cannot explain but he earns the most. Could the Ministry become more imaginative and come up with a way of restructuring the KTDA? That way, the percentage of the money the farmer earns can be increased. The other key issue I would like the Ministry to note is that the tea sub-sector earned the country most of the foreign exchange compared to the other big sectors even when Kenya was experiencing serious problems in the 1990s. However, if you look at the reinvestment of Government when it has collected taxes to the tea sub-sector, you will find that it is zero. This is what we should correct but we should not correct it by putting more money in the Tea Board of Kenya and research. That is not where we need to correct it. We need to correct it by putting money directly to where the farmer needs it, for instance, doing the roads which are always a challenge. If it rains as it is doing now most of the tea will rot in the farms because the factories do not have the capacity to collect it. Can we put money there? We should not put money in some institutions up there that will not be doing much. We have seen that over the years. Can we allocate more money towards increasing the capacity of processing of tea in the factories? We have only one tea factory where I come from. In every rainy season, we waste 30 per cent of the tea we grow because the capacity in the factory is low. Farmers want the factory expanded but they do not have enough money to get loans from banks to increase the factory’s capacity."
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