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    "id": 980551,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "John Mutunga",
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        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, thank you very much for the opportunity to second this Bill. Hon. Speaker, the Tea Bill, as brought by Sen. Cheruiyot, provides for development of tea in terms of promotion of tea as a crop and the value chain as a whole. It also seeks to regulate the tea subsector in terms of providing for factors and actors. The Bill, Hon. Speaker, also seeks to re-establish the Tea Board of Kenya. We used to have the Tea Board of Kenya, Coffee Board of Kenya and Pyrethrum Board of Kenya, but under the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) Act, 2013, all these boards were repealed. All the Acts that established the boards were all put under the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) Act, 2013. The Bill re-establishes the Tea Board of Kenya with powers, privileges, functions, membership and even administration of the Board itself. Hon. Speaker, it provides for separate roles of both governments in view of the devolution and in the spirit of unbundling functions. In the Bill, functions of the county and national governments are carefully and explicitly spelt out. It also aims at dealing with the tea subsector problems which are unique and persistent. As we know, tea subsector has been suffering for a long time with farmers not benefiting as they 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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