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    "id": 980601,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/980601/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Cecily Mbarire",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 78,
        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "It is for that reason that we are going back to the old structure where we have a clear regulatory authority for the tea sector, a clear board that will ensure that the marketing of tea is done well and that farmers get value for their hard work. That way, we can ensure that farmers get what they deserve. AFA has failed us. As legislators, we must call a spade a spade. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me go further and say this: There is something Hon. Mbadi has said that is very important. This Bill as is, in my view, is not radical enough to turn around the tea sector. We must go to where the problem is. The problem we have with the current tea sector as structured is Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA). Period! If we cannot make serious amendments to the KTDA Act, and to the current Tea Act, we are doing nothing. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me read for you something that the former Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Agriculture, Hon. Kiunjuri, said that was very strong and true. He said this in a conference on agri-business and finance: “Reforms in tea and coffee sectors are facing strong opposition leading to escalation of woes facing hundreds of small-holder farmers. Cartels and directors of key export commodities are frustrating the reforms that the government has been fast-tracking in the tea and coffee sectors.”"
}