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"content": "All right, so gather your thoughts. Let us have the Sen. Alexander Mundigi. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Munyi Mundig",
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"content": "Asante, Bw. Spika. Naunga mkono Hoja hii ambayo inahusika na mambo ya kilimo cha kahawa. Siku hizi tuna uwezo wa kusherehekea mambo ya kilimo kwa sababu yako katika serikali gatuzi. Pia tunashukuru Serikali ya Kenya Kwanza kwa sababu imekuwa ikiangalia vile mkulima ataweza kufaidika. Tumegundua ya kwamba wakati Serikali hii iliingia mamlakani, watu wengi walikuwa wameanza kukata miti ya kahawa mashinani na wakaanza kupanda mimea mingi. Hata hivyo, wakati huu tunasherehekea. Katika kaunti zingine utakuta viwanda vingine vya kahawa vinauza kahawa kwa Shilingi 150 kwa kilo zingine shilingi 130 kwa kilo kutoka Shilingi 40 kwa kilo. Kwa hivyo, ninaunga mkono tuweze kuangalia vile mkulima ataweza kufaidika. Tunakumbuka wazazi wetu wazamani walikuwa wanafunzwa kuhusu kilimo cha kahawa. Zile kaunti zilizokuwa zinapanda kahawa zilikuwa zinasherehekea sana. Familia zao zilikuwa zinaendelea vizuri. Hata hivyo, kwa miaka mingi iliyopita, mambo iligeuka lakini sasa tunasherehekea kwa sababu Rais wa Kenya, Mhe. William Ruto, alikuja akawaunganisha watu wote pamoja. Alisema mambo ya cartels iondolewe na akaondoa ushuru kwa mambo mengi. Sasa tunajivunia. Bw. Spika, mimi ninaunga mkono jambo hili. Tukiendelea vile tunaendelea, mkulima wa kahawa katika Kenya nzima atakuwa anajivunia. Hii kwa sabau bei ya kahawa itafika Shilingi 200. Sio kahawa pekee yake, kuna mambo mengi tunastahili tuyaunge mkono. Kuna mambo ya majani, macadamia, maembe, avocados na pia miraa au ‘ muguka.’ Katika nchi ya Kenya, mambo ya kazi imekosekana. Wazazi wengi pia wamekosa pesa ya kupeleka watoto wao shule. Hata wale watoto wetu ambao wamesoma vizuri na wakasoma katika shule hata ya juu na kuenda vyuo vikuu vya degree, imekuwa hakuna kazi. Bw. Spika, tukiendelea hivi, utakuta katika kaunti 47, mambo ya kilimo itaweza kupewa kipaa umbele. Mambo ya kilimo iko katika serikali za kaunti. Kwa hivyo, tungeomba serikali gatuzi ziweze kuipa kilimo kipa umbele . Tumeona magavana na wafanyi kazi wengine hawasaidii katika mambo ya kilimo. Nikiongea juu ya mambo ya kahawa, wiki jana tulitembea kule Bungoma na Kisumu. Tuliona kuna watu wengine ambao wanauza kahawa kwa Shilingi 145 lakini katika kaunti zingine, kahawa ni Shilingi 35. Katika kaunti zingine maziwa inauzwa kwa Shilingi 52 ilhali kaunti zingine maziwa ni Shilingi 44. Haya ni mambo ya kuhuzunisha kwa sababu kuna matapeli wengi. Kuna watu wanaosimamia mambo ya vyama. Ningeomba mambo mengi yaweze kulainishwa. Tukifanya hivyo, mkulima wa kahawa na wakulima wa mazo mengine watafaidika vizuri. Bw. Spika, naunga mkono nikiwa Seneta wa Embu Kaunti. Ninafurahia katika Embu Kaunti mambo ya kahawa yamepewa kipau umbele. Mwisho ni kuomba serikali za kaunti na wizara husika na ukulima na mifugo iweze kupelekwa mashinani ili tuweze kujivunia katika mambo ya kilimo. Asante, Bw. Spika."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
"speaker_title": "The Speaker",
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"content": " Proceed, Senator Omtatah. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to contribute to the Motion on the Coffee Bill that is on the Floor. I have looked at the amendments proposed by the National Assembly. Most of them are technical in nature. I hope that when it goes to the Committee of the Whole, we will interrogate them in detail. They seem to be supportive of the Bill. Therefore, we should finalise this Bill because it is extremely important to the economy of this country. Coffee growing, right from the colonial days, was made a political crop. We hope that this Bill will look into studies that have suggested that Nyanza and Western Kenya, that is, Homa Bay, Siaya, Kisumu, Kakamega, Busia and Migori counties, have very high potential of producing very high-quality coffee. These studies are documented. I would request that as we look at this Bill, we will be able to unlock the potential of these crops. As you can see, the sugar barons have already invaded Western Kenya and they have made mincemeat off the sugar industry. It is hardly there. I support this Bill and I pray that the Committee will give its best attention. As I am still on my feet, I want to raise a matter of great concern to the Senate in terms of our emergency preparedness. Today I just learnt that we are sitting ducks. Should an emergency happen where you need an intervention from a medic, I just learnt that the Senate does not have an emergency department. We do not even have first aid. We have to rely on St Johns Ambulance to give us first aid. The challenge we had this morning should be an eye opener. It also occurred to me that the Bunge Tower as high as it is, does not have a lift where a stretcher can fit. We are only lucky that the emergency we had today happened on the first floor. Therefore, we were able to carry the victim using a stretcher by the staircase. Imagine if it had happened at the top of that building, what could have happened? I think it was a terrible thing and time has come for us to hold people to account. That building cannot continue being like that. When I leave my office, I have to go and look for a shoe shiner to shine my shoes because the carpet gets off and sticks on my shoes. I need the service of a shoe shiner when leaving my office. It is very sad. These people need to be arrested and locked away. Right from people who designed it, those people who supervised it and people who stood for it. We know there are people who made millions of shillings out of that building. We know there are people in this House who bought houses in Karen from---"
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
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"content": " Sen. Omtatah, I just want to know, we are in Order No.9, debating the amendments as proposed by the National Assembly on the Coffee Bill. I am struggling to find relevance. What you are raising is a heavy matter, but I am just struggling to find relevance with what you are saying and the matter at hand. I will give you an opportunity maybe later on to ventilate on the very important matter you are raising. However, for now, just restrict yourself to Order No.9."
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"content": "Going back to the question of coffee, we also realised that coffee is a political crop. It is an international crop that requires heavy lobbying and value addition, which for us should be a very important consideration. We cannot continue exporting raw beans or raw leaves and then reimport as finished products. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "I think when you consider this Bill, I will be requesting that those responsible take it upon themselves to make sure that the question of value addition is seriously addressed. Perhaps, we should even make it illegal like European countries have done, that you cannot export raw materials. We should try to just make sure that we do whatever it takes to export finished products from Kenya. This idea of raw materials has created poverty among our farmers. If you go to Central Kenya where they are growing coffee and look at what the farmer takes home against a tin of Nescafe, you will find that this farmer hardly makes anything. Let us really try to think of ways we can invest in the coffee industry on the value addition systems, the factories and so on, so that we can begin exporting Kenyan coffee as a finished product and ensuring that we get maximum value from the raw material. Sometimes most of the value comes from value addition and not necessarily in raw material. However, I pray that these studies that have come up showing that there are many areas in this country that can grow coffee and do it profitably, are also looked at and investments are prepared for it. This is to ensure that the culture, fear and the politics of coffee locally can be opened up to many sectors. We also need to develop a proper industry, right from the farm to the coffee cup. We should have Kenyan control."
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I thank you for the opportunity."
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"content": " Next is Sen. Cheruiyot, the Senate Majority Leader."
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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to oppose this Motion. Probably, it will be good for me to explain why, so that Members do not think that I am at variance with what the Committee is proposing. There is a little technicality on how this Motion is drafted. The Motion before us, as moved by the Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, is that the National Assembly amendments to the Coffee Bill be now considered, yet if you look at the report of the Committee, they have rejected quite a number of those amendments. That means the Committee wants us to go through a mediation process. If you consider, it means we have to sit as a Committee of the Whole, reject those amendments and then send them to the National Assembly for us to have a mediation to consider the amendments again. Therefore, there is no proper fluency based on how this Motion was drafted. The easiest thing that I urge my colleagues to do is that for us to achieve what the Committee wants us to do, which is to reject some of the amendments by the National Assembly, is to defeat this Motion to necessitate formation of a mediation committee between us and the National Assembly. Thereafter, we will pass the mediated version of the Bill, which will be agreed on by the two Houses. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is a very simple and straightforward matter. For that reason, I oppose this Motion and agree to the reasoning behind the rejection of the amendments by the National Assembly because coffee is not just any ordinary crop. I am a proud representative of coffee, tea and sugarcane farmers. Hardly do farmers appreciate the Government effort in any particular industry. In my time here in the Senate, there are only two or three occasions that I have done that. In 2021 when we passed the Tea Bill that was sponsored by yours truly and farmers began receiving their payments by 5th of every month as opposed to the previous The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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