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    "id": 86586,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Njuguna",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njuguna Gitau",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to also join my colleagues make some contribution to this Motion. First of all, let me support the Motion as presented by the Minister and indicate that the Minister very ably presented the Motion. One critical observation that I have noted on the new Bill concerns the control or the impediment that is being created by the new powers enshrined in the new Bill. This one hinges on the hawking of tea in the country. Hawking of tea has really affected many homes. Tea is stolen from the farms and taken to those processors who are able to buy from these brokers. This tea hawking has affected a big region in my area, for example, Githunguri, Kiambaa, Limuru and even Lari constituencies are affected. This is where this vice has continued. It has even compromised security in this area because those people hawking tea are fully armed and prepared for any eventuality. This does not augur well to the small farmers. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the small farmers who have decided to take their tea to these processors have created some home insecurity because their wives have been beaten by their husbands and even income which could sustain the families is not there. Even these small farmers, at the end of the day or at the end of the whole operation, do not get bonuses. Employment in the homesteads has also been compromised as workers have been sacked. Some of the big factories which have been the main takers of this tea are collapsing. They are almost stopping operations because they are not receiving this crop. Where these factories have already taken loans from banks or facilities for that matter, they are not able to sustain its operations. Even workers in these established factories already started by the Kenya Tea Development Authority (KTDA) are also going under. This does not augur well for this country."
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