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    "id": 980696,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/980696/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
        "slug": "owen-yaa-baya"
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    "content": "I heard what Hon. Cecily Mbarire said that they want to remove the coffee auction from Mombasa. Tea is a very bulky product. It can only be transported through the port and the port is in Mombasa. We have suffered enough since the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) came. Many things happened at the port. The only thing that is sustaining the economy at the Coast is tea because the transport sector still transports tea in bulk to Mombasa. At least there is tea auction. After that, there is a coffee auction. The coffee auction still provides very many jobs for the people there. Many people come in and occupy hotels in Mombasa. Hotels in Mombasa are subsisting because the tea auction still happens in Mombasa. If this Bill sails through, you need to start auctioning tea from the farms and look for other ways of transporting it. By doing this, you will contribute to the killing of the economy of Mombasa. I beg this House to help Mombasa to continue having something it can subsist on and allow the auction to continue taking place in Mombasa. This will allow transporters to still make a shilling after the SGR took away all the business to Nairobi. At least, there will be something that will sustain it. So, tea is not just important to the people from the Mt. Kenya region or other tea growing areas, but Mombasa, the second largest city in this country, depends on what happens with tea. If the tea industry collapses, Mombasa will collapse. As we celebrate this new breath of fresh air into the agriculture sector, I support this and hope that as fast as possible, we shall see the death of the AFA Act, which has continued to kill the agriculture sector."
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