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    "id": 980739,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/980739/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gichugu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gichimu Githinji",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Gichimu Githinji",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the management and regulation of the tea sector has been left to private players who have a lot of interest in the business as well. Issues that affect the tea sector start right from the buying centres, to the factory, processing and marketing. The way elections are done at the local level is an area that needs a lot of reforms. After passing this Bill, we need to look at the relevant instruments that have created the factories. You will note that a director will be voted for with a certain threshold of shareholding which is okay, but it is not right and proper for disparity in the voting power of the people who are voting that person in. What has been happening is that the people with majority of shareholding through having many bushes and kilos are the ones who determine who runs the factory as a director. That denies that local person who has fewer stems and fewer kilos the equal right of voting. That is an area that we need to insist on that one man one vote should be key in choosing the leaders that are supposed to run or lead the factories."
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