{"id":1012819,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1012819/?format=json","text_counter":100,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Murkomen","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":440,"legal_name":"Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen","slug":"kipchumba-murkomen"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, I appreciate Sen. Wetangula for bringing this important Statement. A week ago, the President of the Republic of Kenya together with some governors from the western part of the country, announced that National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) will be a warehouse. That means that it will receive maize for the purpose of maize storage. When did the NCPB, which was primarily established to buy maize from farmers turn to be a warehouse where farmers are forced to pay to store their maize? When did the NCPB turn into a drier where farmers go and dry maize? Like Sen. (Eng.) Maina said, our founding President, the second President and the third President knew why NCPB was established. There was a reason why this country decided that on the issue of maize and cereals, NCPB must buy them at a particular price because of the cost of production and strategic interest this nation has in terms of feeding its farmers."}