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    "id": 980017,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/980017/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bureti, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Japheth Mutai",
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        "id": 13310,
        "legal_name": "Japheth Kiplangat Mutai",
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    "content": "It was a massive mistake to allow a private company to run the affairs of tea farmers in this country. The monopoly that KTDA has is unwarranted. You cannot have one entity that has pure monopoly to be processing tea from all the tea factories within the country. In the Bill, the TBK will have powers to license another outfit like KTDA to avoid one entity having monopoly over everything. It is the same monopoly that we need to get rid of. We are getting rid of monopoly in a structured way whereby licensed entities doing business do not do it the way they are currently structured. It is very unfortunate that some Members in this Parliament feel that a crop like tea should be lumped together with potatoes and be treated in the same way potatoes are treated. This is a crop that is sustaining so many lives and generating a lot of foreign exchange for this country. Yet, you want to take it for granted and treat it the same way you treat other crops. It is known that the current Tea Directorate in AFA has completely failed. That is why farmers are in the predicament they are currently in. Since that has failed, it will be unwise of us to stand here and say we revisit AFA and try to find solutions and yet, we can find solutions through a creation The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}