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    "id": 978973,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/978973/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to comment and contribute to the Tea Bill (Senate Bill No.36 of 2018). History repeats itself. I guess no nation should be embarrassed to have to repeat history. We had the Tea Board of Kenya for many years. I think whatever the rationale was at the time was obviously not too far-sighted. They amalgamated this into one monstrous organisation which we are now struggling to un-bundle to go back to where we were before. We have wasted time and resources. Looking at this Bill, I do not see how it is significantly saving us from the failures of the previous one. The appreciation underlying the formation of the board has not gone sufficiently well into factors that are challenging – failed crops such as tea related to cost of labour and opportunity cost of land that goes up with population pressure. There are many things that you can do with the land that has long-term crops such as tea with population pressure on it. That puts enormous pressure on it."
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