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"content": "farmers in Narok and other areas will not be able to sell their wheat. We already have a lot of wheat which is stocked in our stores and warehouses. As the Chairman for the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives, I can confirm to the hon. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance that we have adequate wheat. This year, growing of wheat has been very expensive because of wetness. The fact is that it is now much more expensive and we have a bumper harvest for wheat. The millers will not be able to buy from our farmers and that will be a disincentive. So, I would like to persuade his mind as far as that is concerned. I would also like him to look again at the issue of maize. Maize has become a tool for corruption where few people become rich and a tool which destabilizes the whole economy and the core business of this Government. We cannot run a Budget when people are planning how it will fail due to food shortages. In respect to the pending purchase of the aflatoxin maize and the rotten maize, this is a fallacy. There is nothing like 2.3 million bags of rotten maize anywhere in Kenya. However, it is a fact that people want to consume that money. So that money should not be provided for from the Exchequer unless somebody is able to prove and show the quantities. I am saying this very firmly because I know about the harvests and storage of maize. There is nothing like 2.3 million bags with aflatoxin. Let us stop playing politics on such dangerous issues as food. Aflatoxin exists. That is a fact. However, the Ministries which are responsible including the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation â I am glad that our sister is here â should come and do traceability tests. Traceability test tells where the genotype of maize came from. To me, the conclusion is clear that this is imported maize. It is maize that we have said is Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) time and again. One needs not be lazy to go to the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Fisheries Development and the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife and see how many permits have been issued to Kenya, from permit No.032, 033 all through to permit No.037. This is GMO maize. There is nowhere else in the world where even rats and dogs are allowed to use that maize. It is only in Kenya and Brazil where this has happened. Brazil took 30,000 metric tonnes for bio-fuel. However, In Kenya, whereas France, Germany and other civilized parts of the world were taking 2.5 kilogrammes or 5 kilogrammes, Kenya has taken a whooping 280,000 metric tonnes. That is equivalent to 3.6 million bags. A company which is importing maize is also distributing the same. This is my worst fear and nightmare. The company which is distributing this maize is also distributing to our local millers. So, in other words, Kenyans have been fed with GMO maize and the Government has refused to collect its duty with regard to that. First and foremost, the Minister should move to cause prosecution to these people and recover the duty that has been stolen from Kenyan taxpayers by people who are masquerading to bring in clean maize whereas they know that they are bringing in rubbish. This includes the maize which was brought to Nakuru by MV Siam Opal. The maize had a moisture content of 15.25 per cent which is far away from the required levels. In 1963, during the reign of the founder of this nation, the late President Kenyatta, we heard that there would be a road to Moyale. That song has been going on through Moiâs regime all through to the present time. The Arab Bank was supposed to do it. The song is still going on. Could we now have an affirmative action in terms of the requirements so that we open up that area so that our economy does not drain but instead"
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