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    "id": 910493,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/910493/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Let me add my voice to this appropriate and important Petition to this House. You will all remember that we had a Committee that looked into the tea programmes. The problems that are inherent in the tea industry are numerous but the person who bears the heaviest burden is the small scale farmer; the farmer who literally pays for everything. When we did the survey on the tea industry, it was apparent to us that the tea industry has more than 42 levels of taxation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you were once a Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and you will appreciate that the most troubled, tested and persecuted person is the small scale holder in the tea industry. More so, even the immediate factories which ostensibly they ought to own, are at the mercy of the executive from the KTDA. Therefore, what the KTDA says at the headquarters is what goes on the ground. The ‘small’ men and women in that environment within that factory setting, even though they have representation at the factory level, have no voice over what happens to their tea, how it is being processed, what the end product is, and what happens at the end of the auction in Mombasa."
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