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    "id": 980001,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/980001/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Lari, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jonah Mwangi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jonah Mburu Mwangi",
        "slug": "jonah-mburu-mwangi"
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    "content": "We are talking about markets that have existed for our tea in Kenya like Pakistan, Egypt and small countries like Lebanon. Those countries are undergoing a financial crisis. Pakistan’s currency to the Dollar has depreciated more than 100 per cent while Egypt has local wars. If we continuously depend on those countries, how do we expect to fetch more money for our tea? One role of the Kenya Tea Board is to present financial statements - the one that Hon. Kimunya opposed. Why? As Parliament, we give them a budget for marketing our tea because it should be a Government to Government affair. Then they can go to America and Europe so that we have more markets for our tea rather than the shrinking market we have for our quality tea, which is said to be the best in the world. But we do not have a wide market now. How do we expect to make money? Tea is not like potatoes or tomatoes that we can eat locally. If we have to market locally, I do not think the local companies can take even 10 per cent of our production. Currently, we consume 5 per cent of what we produce locally."
}