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    "id": 1010684,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": "It is against this background that I seek a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Co-operatives on the following: (i) Could the Cabinet Secretary explain the plans the Ministry has put in place to ensure smooth and sustainable implementation of the Presidential Directive of 1st February 2020 on the Government buying paddy rice directly from farmers at the price of Kshs85 per kilogramme? (ii) Has the same Presidential Directive of February 2020 on the establishment of paddy rice revolving fund to facilitate the Government in buying paddy rice from farmers being implemented? (iii) When is the KNTC going to buy and pay MRGM for the paddy rice worth Kshs200 million so that MRGM Co-operative Society Limited can pay farmers? Hon. Speaker, the Statement I am seeking is urgent because we risk closing down the said co-operative society and Lainisha Savings and Credit Co-operative (SACCO) – also a farmers’ SACCO. The two SACCOs have already borrowed money to pay farmers because of the KNTC’s inability to buy the rice in Mwea. Further to that, we are just about to harvest this season’s crop and we do not know where we will be taking our rice. For that reason, I want to urge the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Co-operatives to move with speed and give me a response to this Statement because we are in a crisis. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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