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    "id": 980602,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/980602/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Cecily Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "He goes further to say: “KTDA is part of this problem.” Therefore, I want to say this and I want everybody to hear: Today, the tea sector, that has over 62 small holder factories with over 600,000 farmers, is on its knees. The highest paid farmer was paid from a factory back home called Rukuriri Tea Factory at Kshs39 a kilogramme, down from Kshs57 the previous year. If we keep quiet, we are going to go down to even Kshs10 or Kshs5 a kilogramme because of cartels. What is happening at KTDA is that they are the people who are marketing the tea on behalf of the farmers. What we are asking is that instead of us taking all that tea to a central auction base in Mombasa, we want the tea to be auctioned right from the factories so that there is transparency on the pricing and the quantity of tea that has actually been auctioned. First, we want the directors of those tea factories to be elected on a one-man one-vote and not shares anymore. What has happened with the shareholding issue is that, at the end of the day, 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."
}