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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. It is good that we are discussing serious issues. One of the biggest agenda of President William Ruto was on fixing the mess in farming through guaranteed minimum returns, coffee and tea sector. The President continued to perform exceptionally very well in fulfilling the agenda. Even today, a few hours ago, I congratulate His Excellency the President because he continues to prove wrong the naysayers by launching the 2010 Mukuru Estate Affordable Housing Programme. The unfortunate part is that the Senator of Nairobi City County did not turn up, but the entire leadership of Nairobi was there to prove---"
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"content": " Senator of Nandi, confine your contributions to the matter at hand. You know our Standing Orders on the issue of relevance. I do not want to rule you out of order. Please, proceed with your contribution on the subject at hand."
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"content": "I am coming there. I am bringing it home."
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"content": "I wanted to show the nation that the President continues to fulfill his agenda. One of the agendas apart from affordable housing is guaranteed minimum returns, the coffee and tea sector reforms. We continue to prove our naysayers wrong. Even in the dairy sector, it is a fulfillment that will not go unnoticed. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you should rein in Sen. Eddy. He is shouting, yet he is the Chairman of the Committee on Roads, Transport and Housing. I did not see him there. I also want to correct a total misnomer that has been advanced by the Senior Counsel that Nandi does not grow coffee. We grow coffee. He should know that he was in Uasin Gishu not Nandi County. Would it be in order that the Clerk's office guides the good Senior Counsel on how counties are because he was in Eldoret, which is in Uasin Gishu; not Nandi County. I want to correct that record. Where we border Kericho, we plant coffee in Tinderet over 80 per cent. We plant coffee in Nandi Hills, Mosop, in Chesumei up to Uasin Gishu, where he was. I was disappointed when Kshs10 billion came from CCF through the World Bank. In the last session the current Speaker of the National Assembly moved this House because at that time, only the people from murima benefited from the World Bank Coffee Cherry Fund. 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 hope Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe will correct this travesty of justice against the farmers in Nandi and across the nation. In fact, as we talk, a number of cooperative societies, from Kipchele and Kabunyeria Cooperative Society Coffee, and many others across Nandi County are yet to get the start-up. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have challenged the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Ministry of Cooperatives, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Hon. Oparanya, to bring a special package to jump-start most of our cooperative societies which are struggling. Under guaranteed minimum returns, that the President, by the covenant that he had with Kenyans, we must relook and ensure that farmers get value. It is said that the average age of farmers in this country is 50 years. We encourage the Gen Zs and the Millennials to be part of bringing agri-business in terms of running of our farms. I am happy, Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is a wake-up call of ensuring that coffee is being grown. I saw the Commissioner in Parliamentary Service Commission. I inform him that even as we sit in our restaurant here in Parliament, they charge us Kshs350 for coffee. I do not know, espresso or cappuccino house coffee, chicken coffee or something like that. They serve us coffee. You can imagine the frustration of first-time Members of Parliament who are still putting their financials in order. It is unfair that you are charging Kshs350 for coffee here. Across at the Java House is Kshs450, yet it is being financed by our budget from Parliament. This is around US$3. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to say this because I am a farmer and I represent farmers. I feel so pained that our farmers wake up very early in the morning to work, but the biggest beneficiaries are middlemen and brokers in this country. There is a calculated discrimination of farmers in this country. You remember we brought a statement that Kshs34 billion worth of tea from Western Kenya had not been sold. What offence have Western Kenya farmers committed? We are struggling with sugar crisis leasing at the moment. Tea, coffee, dairy sector and sugar cane is correlated. In Nandi, we are being paid up to Kshs17 for tea bonus, yet when you go to some parts of this country, they are being paid up to Kshs58. It is not fair. We must be deliberate reform as in the coffee sector reforms. I want to challenge the chairperson of the Committee on agriculture, Livestock and fisheries. I have never seen them participate in coffee caucus sector reforms. I saw only the Member of Parliament from Nyeri Town, Hon. Duncan Mathenge, who is the Chair of Coffee Parliamentary Caucus. I have not seen Senate becoming proactive. I know the Vice-Chair, Sen. Mundigi, the Deputy Party Leader of the Democratic Party (DP). I have not seen their input in the Parliamentary Coffee Caucus. We need to caucus even in the tea sector, so that we can see value. There are better conversations we can do outside this room that will be beneficial. Let me make a few very critical points and then I cede the Floor. On the issue of the buyer, I do not agree. There was no need to define these things. This one should be deleted. Another factor is the danger of coffee theft, especially in the Mount Kenya region. The unfortunate part is the incompetence in that Ministry, but let me propose. 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": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of Interior and National Administration should form what we call an anti-coffee theft unit to protect our farmers the way we have done for anti-stock theft unit. You have seen deaths even in Nyamira, Murang’a and in Meru, where your Deputy Speaker comes from. Coffee is a matter of life and death. The Ministry of Interior and National Administration must form anti-coffee theft police unit at least, so that our farmers can feel safe. I think also the Ministry of Interior and National Administration must give powers to the Inspector General of Police, which of course is independent, to have a sector where the armed police officers are providing 24-hour surveillance and security in our coffee factories across the country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is because you remember the story of Chepkube during the era of President Kenyatta I. I know the “youth leader,” Sen. (Dr.) Oburu Odinga, is a custodian of history of this country. Coffee was being treated like gold. People were dying because of it. At some point during the last regime, some of us had our bodyguards withdrawn because we had different views with the regime. We had even thought that we needed to form a parliamentary police unit, so that they are not subject to few people within powers who can withdraw bodyguards that offer VIP protection. This is something we suggested; it is not something I am bringing up."
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"content": " What is your point of order, Senator for Meru?"
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want inform my good friend, Sen. Cherarkey, who is saying anti-coffee police unit. Is it anti-coffee or pro-coffee police unit because I am not getting it right and we might mislead the Kenyans who are watching us? The subject matter is very emotive. However, I am happy with what you and the other Members have canvassed. I have been following up this matter throughout this afternoon. He should correct because it is not anti-coffee because he has said that police officers are against coffee. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, and the Deputy Speaker, Sen. Kathuri Murungi for that correction. I meant that there should be a specific unit to protect our coffee factories and where coffee is being stored in order to prevent theft. A police unit should be formed to prevent the theft of coffee in this country. The Ministry of Interior and National Administration can start with coffee factories for now and where coffee is being given. I agree that should be the least we can do. The principle so that I qualify my argument; is that we are not talking about the issue of giving police to prevent theft of coffee. I am also talking about livestock or even diplomats. Therefore, when Kenyans will listen, we are not saying that the Ministry of Interior and National Administration should get extra budge, it should just be reallocating and creating a department or a police unit that will specifically deal with coffee theft in this and we have formed many units. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the third one is on taxation. The reading of Article 210 on imposition of taxes and the reading of Article 209. We need to be very careful because 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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