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    "id": 1030374,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1030374/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Maina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 75,
        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "should ask ourselves why the USA Government ensures that their milk, maize, wheat and tobacco farmers are guaranteed a certain payment. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I remember President John F. Kennedy beating Richard Nixon when he argued that farmers must be protected and guaranteed a certain minimum payment. This is because a farmer is not actually in charge of supply and demand. A farmer produces when the rain comes. A farmer harvests when the season is right. Today, this country is importing oranges from Egypt and fruits from South Africa. I am calling upon this Government to retrace its steps and bring Kenya back to where it was when farming was the backbone of our economy. This ensured the country had a strong economy. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in fact, our shilling was stronger than the British Pound. Therefore, Kenya should be a net exporter of everything. We should be having a Boeing leaving the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) every morning, taking fresh fruits to the Arabian countries. With their petro dollars, we should be getting a premium profit. What is the magic that KMC, which I understand now is being run by the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF), cannot go back and produce meat the way they were in the early 1970s and 1980s?"
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