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    "id": 1079887,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1079887/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wilson Sossion",
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    "content": "borders on deliberate criminal action from unscrupulous individuals to make money out of fake seeds. Households and small-scale farmers who rely on seeds to produce food are at risk of starvation and inability to raise income for their livelihoods. Therefore, this matter, in my own opinion, ought to be classified as a serious security issue that may not only be dealt with by the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, but may require an ad hoc Committee of this House. Hon. Speaker, it is very shameful that as a country, and even as a Government of Kenya, whose one of the Big Four Agenda is food security, to allow and permit the sale of fake or uncertified seeds to farmers. We should not just be a talking shop. I believe this is a matter that you have within your powers that you can direct that it be dealt with by either the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock or an ad hoc Committee of the House to deal with it to finality so that we can protect the farmers in every planting season. There is also need for farmers to be always secured and insured in case of crop failure. There is need for the Government to take responsibility and compensate the farmers who were tricked into using fake seeds. Hon. Speaker, it is time we judiciously take action on criminal individuals who engage in criminal activities to dupe farmers in our country. I support the Petition."
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