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    "id": 948704,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Malalah",
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        "legal_name": "Cleophas Wakhungu Malalah",
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    "content": "The distinguished delegate, Sen. Shiyonga. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support this Report. I was a Member of the ad hoc Committee and we went around this country to listen to the real players in this sector. I believe that ad hoc committees are becoming more effective than even the standing committees because we see deliverables from adhoc committees. We were very committed in the Committee. Members took time out of their busy schedules to go to the villages of this country. We traversed the rugged terrain of the former Rift Valley and Central provinces and part of the former Western Province to ensure that we come up with a credible report. I thank the Chairperson of the Committee, who is the Senator for Kericho County, for making personal sacrifice to ensure that we have a report that will deliver the people of Kenya from shackles of mismanagement and poverty. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, to make my submission, you will allow me to juxtapose the problems facing the tea farmer which are synonymous to those facing the sugar cane farmer. In my submission as I point out the challenges facing the tea farmer, you will allow me once in a while to also highlight the issues facing the sugar cane farmer in Kakamega County and the former Western Province at large. When we went around, we identified one big problem which cuts across all the sectors of agriculture. The problem is that we lack a tea policy that governs and regulates this sector. The tea policy has been in a draft form for around five years. It is very important for the people who are coming up with it to hasten the process and ensure that we have a tea policy that governs and regulates the sector. We also realised that we lack modern technology in tea production because we have tea farmers who are still using old technologies. It is a high time that they should be alive to the fact that we have worldwide emerging trends in tea production."
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