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    "id": 113867,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/113867/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. C. Kilonzo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
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    "content": "What I meant is that I had filed a Question by Private Notice and I intend not to spend any other time in the future on the same. So, I will request that the same question not to be answered, that it be withdrawn. Only last week the Assistant Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Kareke Mbiuki, told MPs that he has sympathised with them, and that he sympathised with farmers. We do not want sympathy but action from the Government. The Government has been importing maize at Kshs3,300 per bag from South Africa and other countries. The Government buys the same maize from farmers here at Kshs2,300. So, I have the following question: Can the Government consider buying maize at a better price than Kshs2,300? Secondly, we are facing heavy rains as we talk right now in most parts of the country, and in particular, the Eastern Province. We have the challenge of drying facilities. Can the Government provide drying facilities for these farmers? Finally, is the issue of where the farmers will take the maize. When we say farmers take the maize to the buying centres, which are warehouses of the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB), can the Minister consider providing mobile units in market centres, so that farmers can reduce the cost of having to trek to the NCPB stores? The minute you introduce transport to the NCPB stores, the question of middle men comes in."
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