{"id":948473,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/948473/?format=json","text_counter":55,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Wetangula","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":210,"legal_name":"Moses Masika Wetangula","slug":"moses-wetangula"},"content":"The tea sector is in a crisis that was created by inaction by the Government and dishonest managers of the sector born out of the benign neglect of tea farmers in the country. Tea has been a major foreign exchange earner in this country, raking in billions of shillings that stabilise our foreign exchange reserves thus adding to our Gross Domestic Product (GDP)."}