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    "id": 979955,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to comment on this important piece of legislation. I used to be in the Committee on Agriculture and Livestock in the last Parliament and at one time, there was a very big problem between KTDA and tea farmers in Meru and Hon. Kareke Mbiuki, Hon. Kathuri Murungi and the new Governor for Tharaka Nithi, Hon. Muthomi Njuki, took us to that region. We went to meet farmers for three or four days and they were willing to cut down all the tea bushes since they were of no more help to them. Parliament did its best in those circumstances to help the farmers, but the situation has not been solved up to this day. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you look at the proposed Section 31 of the transitional provisions, it is clear and it says: “31: All rights, obligations and contracts which immediately before the coming into operation of this Act were vested in or imposed on the Agriculture Food Authority with respect to the tea sector shall by virtue of this section, be deemed to be the rights, obligations and contracts of the Authority as the case may be.” And this particular section and the ones which follow on transition seem to be taking away from AFA, which is an Act of Parliament, which is not going to be repealed by this proposed Bill."
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