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    "id": 1157609,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1157609/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
        "slug": "johnson-arthur-sakaja"
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    "content": "through the cracks. Farmers in Laikipia do their farming; they transport their cabbages to Marigiti Market and somebody buys it in Marigiti. That will never show up anywhere in our books in terms of revenue, but it is GDP; it is activity going on. Today a common Kenyan who used to pay Kshs120 for a 2 kilogramme packet of wheat flour is paying Kshs185 or close to Kshs200. The sad thing in Kenya is that prices are the same for you and for the beggar. There is no subsidy. The price of liquid oil has gone up from Kshs250 to Kshs400. Bread has gone up from Kshs45 to Kshs60. Rice has gone up from Kshs70 per kilogramme to Kshs100. Maize flour has gone up from Kshs90 to Kshs120. Even salt for the first time has gone up. Milk has gone up from Kshs40 to Kshs60. However, incomes have not gone up. There is a huge crisis looming. This in itself is a crisis, but it is going to get worse. Currently, as I speak, there is a shortage of milk in our country. There is going to be a food shortage because fertilizer has gone up to Kshs6,000 and the subsidy programme being proposed is that you have to be registered with National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB). How many farmers are registered with NCPB? If you look at the amount of maize we produce, 36 million bags, they only take 3 million. Not all farmers produce to sell to NCPB. If you want to give fertilizers to those farmers, what do you expect the majority to do?"
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