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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Cecily Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "those directors are influenced by KTDA, the farmer with the highest shareholding in terms of kilogrammess and some influencing determines who ends up being the director. The tea farmers are disenfranchised and they end up not having any say on how their factories are run. So, we want one-man, one-vote in terms of those who end up being a director. Secondly, you cannot be a director at KTDA level- at the national level- and still be a broker of tea. Today, almost all the directors of KTDA - and I stand to be corrected - have an auction company. They are the brokers between the farmers and the market. Why do we need brokers to sell our tea? Why are we not selling our tea like we sell flowers, for example? Why is it that there must be a broker who does the brokerage on behalf of the farmer? Why can we not negotiate those prices directly with the farmers? And, therefore, for that reason, I am going to be bringing far-reaching amendments on this Bill and will make sure we restructure KTDA. I want to beg members from outside the tea-growing regions, let us start with the tea sector. If you want to bring another one on sugar tomorrow, we will support you because our business is to empower the people who voted for us; the people we represent. We must not be intimidated by anybody because those cartels are powerful. They have money and they are making more money through the sweat of our farmers. We must not allow them to intimidate us. We must fight for those farmers. I hope we are going to see a lot more seriousness with Hon. Members from the tea-growing zones. We want to see serious amendments coming on this Floor so that we can send a strong message to the cartels that their time is up and the farmer come first as far as this House is concerned. With those many remarks, I beg to support."
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