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    "id": 1012839,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Linturi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Franklin Mithika Linturi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. Allow me to thank Sen. Cherargei for requesting this Statement. One way or another, this reminds this Parliament of our great responsibility as a House to oversight the Government. You will agree with me that when the locusts invaded this country, nobody was prepared for them; they came as an emergency. In most cases, many millionaires have been created in this country out of emergencies. You remember the nature in which we had to deal with this locust outbreak. I am sure that most procurements within the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries must have been emergency procurements. Seeing that they were emergency procurements, the right procurement procedures were probably not followed. For that matter, getting value for money could have been an issue. Sen. Cherargei requesting for this Statement gives us an opportunity as a House to interrogate the processes that were followed, to get to know how much money was spent on locusts and how much money donors gave to this country. I think that it is really a noble idea at this moment. Mr. Speaker, Sir, remember that the devastating effects of locusts in this country have to do with destruction of crops. Crops are food and we rely on them. One of the items of the Big Four Agenda of the Jubilee Government is food security. The locust The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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