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    "id": 100915,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/100915/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is a clarification I would like to get from the Minister. The scheme that was introduced in 2008 was supposed to benefit the consumers who are the common wananchi at home. The Government was supposed to deal with the rising prices of maize at that time. This is how the Strategic Grain Reserve (SGR) stocks were involved in a process through the NCPB to try and stabilize the prices for common wananchi. Instead of that policy achieving that purpose, what happened is what the Minister for Finance told us. There was a loss of Kshs17.6 billion in terms of taxes. This is money that went to the waters. Now we are told that the officers who were suspended ostensibly because of some reasons are completely innocent of criminal charges. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Kenyan people are asking what happened and how they will recover that money? Is it not possible for the Minister to surcharge the officers who show negligence? The collective actions of the trustees of SGR, Ministry of Agriculture and the specially created ad hoc committees were substantially to blame for the loss that the people of Kenya suffered through this maize scandal. Could the Minister tell this House who is to bear this burden? Who is going to be surcharged if in the opinion of the President these people should be reinstated to their official positions? Who should bear the surcharge? Who is going to pay for this?"
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