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    "id": 986378,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a very important matter that the distinguished Senator for Bungoma has brought to this House. I wish to remind him that he needs to add Kericho County in his list of coffee growing regions. My county is well known for growing tea, but coffee ranks second in our cash crops. This is because we have a large chunk of our population growing this particular crop. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you will recall that last week, while debating the Division of Revenue Bill, I brought up an issue for the attention of the House. If we do not check the operations of the National Treasury through this mitigation projects, and all these funds such as the conditional grants and loans that do not bypass the checks and balances of Parliament, we will end up practising marginalisation and exclusion that brought us to the precincts of violence in the years that preceded the 2010 Constitution. This is a very important question, which I want to request the responsible Committee, once seized of this matter, they should also take an opportunity to invite those of us who have interest and are representatives of coffee farmers, to join in on the day that the CS will come to respond. I would wish to know why the people that I represent, who are not less taxpayers than those people from other regions that have continued to be favoured in terms of development, have been left out. Whether it is building modern hospitals, water projects or construction of major highways, they are favoured. The rest of the country is watching in anguish and wondering what they should do to enjoy such projects. Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is my humble plea in addition to the requests by Sen. Wetangula."
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