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    "id": 821206,
    "url": "http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/821206/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
        "slug": "margaret-kamar"
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The history of maize in this country is becoming a touchy issue. In this Motion, we are requesting for the establishment of an Ad Hoc Committee to investigate the maize crisis. One may ask why we are going this route. Two months ago on 29th May, 2018, I made a statement regarding the situation of maize, particularly in Uasin Gishu County, where I outlined the fact that farmers were not paid. Thereafter, we discovered from the report of the Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation that it was actually true that farmers were not paid and there was suspicion that traders were paid. My appeal for an Ad hoc Committee was due to the fact that there are things that are known to the Minister that are not known to farmers and nobody is giving us that information. It is true that farmers delivered their grains from December, 2017, and that most of them have not been paid to date. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I came across a circular that was released early July from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) ---"
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