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    "id": 980049,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon Ngeno (",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this sector obviously never died naturally but was killed by us. It is unfortunate that we have to do laws every other time. We have laws in this country and I do not think it is laws that we need to resurrect such sectors. We only need to think and act so that we can do things which other people can do without laws. Remember agriculture is the backbone of our economy since time immemorial. It is like we are stuck there. People moved from agrarian systems to industrialisation and then communication. For us, we are still stuck in the agrarian system and it seems we will be stuck there for a long time. Now that we are stuck there, we are only hoping that the laws we are creating today will help manage those particular sectors, especially the tea subsector. I had relatives in Kericho and I remember visiting them those days. During the time when bonus was being paid, you would not find men in their homes because they would have gone to pick their bonuses in Kericho. They stayed there, drank and spent even a whole week there. That was a time full of merry. In fact, at that time, students would never be found at home for lack of fees because their fathers had money. Nowadays, they are grappling with the same problems we who do not plant tea have. People from Kericho, Bomet and even Kiambu have problems similar to the ones people of Narok, who do not plant tea, have. We are actually running up and down to find ways of survival."
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