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    "id": 874406,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Rev.) Waqo",
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Jilo Waqo",
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    "content": "As I was going through the report, I felt sad that we have destroyed our own nation and resources with our poor leadership and non-commitment. As we are aware, sugarcane farmers have gone through a lot of challenges. Yesterday in the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, we met a team of petitioners on tea, coffee and macadamia, and they shared with us the suffering and frustrations that they have gone through. Madam Temporary Speaker, if we cannot take any action today, as a nation; and if we cannot be firm and take radical action, as a Government, then we are going nowhere. We have destroyed all that God gave us. Kenya is a very beautiful country; Kenyans are very hardworking, creative and innovative, but we have destroyed the gift that God gave us with our own hands and poor leadership. Historically, farmers were supported by the Government in the production processes through provision of inputs from the Kenya Farmers Association (KFA), the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) and the NCPB. However today, our farmers have no support at all. We have cartels everywhere and we keep on talking about cartels, yet the cartels we are talking about are not far from us. Most of them are in the offices that we have in this city. We know them by their names, but unfortunately, they cannot be touched. In fact, if we are serious with what we are doing, I wonder why some officers are still sitting in their offices today, yet this Report has revealed a lot of mess that we are in, as a nation. As I was going through the report, I saw that most of the genuine farmers have not been paid for the deliveries they made to the NCPB even by the time this Report was compiled. One of things that the Report brought out is that the money allocated to pay maize farmers was diverted to pay traders, brokers and ghost farmers, occasioning the delay of payment to genuine farmers who had already delivered their produce."
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