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    "id": 980047,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon Ngeno (",
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    "content": "Emurua Dikirr, KANU): Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First, I am grateful that this chance has at last come back to me. As you know, I do not come from tea growing areas. Actually, the soil in most parts of Emurua Dikirr cannot support tea growing. Of course, you know that people in most parts of Narok County do not plant tea other than the upper side of the Mau Forest and some parts of Kilgoris. However, people decided to run away from planting tea because of the problems facing people who already had tea bushes. Funny enough, my great-grandfather, Menya ole-Kisiara, was the first Kipsigis resident to sign an agreement with the Europeans, the settlers who came to Kenya. He donated over 10,000 hectares of land for these people to plant tea – the current Kericho Highlands, where they first planted tea in this country. From then onwards, people from the surrounding areas decided to plant trees. Unfortunately, the fact is that most of us, as Africans, do not know how to manage most of the affairs. The management of tea bushes, including the ones that we planted privately, becomes a big issue. We normally presume that it is an opportunity for us to squander. When I was young, many of my agemates used to travel all the way to Kericho, Sotik and Bomet to pluck tea leaves. It was a good area of employment, just like teaching and other forms of employment in the country. Therefore, many of my friends used to pick tea leaves for payment. However, it eventually died down because nobody would employ them since the prices of tea and other benefits of tea went down tremendously. That led to loss of many opportunities for our people. 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."
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