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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, maize is a staple food. It is also grown in Kisumu County. Let us protect the local farmer. The only way to motivate local farmers, whether from Kisumu, Kakamega, Lamu, Turkana, Nyamira, Kisii and many other parts, is to buy their produce at good prices. If you buy a bag of maize at Kshs7,000; the same price we bought fertilizer, it will motivate us to go back to farming. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is no Constituency Development Fund (CDF). We, therefore, depend on maize to pay school fees, our upkeep and farm. I agree with proposals and one of the prayers, that animals in Northern Kenya and drought-stricken areas must be bought. However, I do not want to see a cow being bought at Kshs15,000; the way Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) was doing. In my opinion, the minimum a cow should be bought is between Kshs50,000 and Kshs100,000 because a farmer has spent a lot in the maintaining and taking care of it. You are killing that farmer in Northern Kenya twice, if he sells the weak animal at Ksh1,500. What is Kshs1,500? What can 15 dollars buy in a country, where the cost of inflation and living is very high? I agree with this issue. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the only way to protect farmers is through guaranteed minimum returns. Be it coffee or sugarcane. There is a programme called “A Thousand Ways to Die.” Being a Kenyan farmer can be classified as one of them. Farmers do not have the energy to perform night duties because of what we go through. We are tired, disenfranchised, stressed and many other things that farmers undergo. People here in Nairobi wait for farmers from Nyandarua to deliver foodstuff to them. Can you believe that in Nyandarua, we throw away potatoes and yet somebody is dying of hunger in Turkana? Can you believe in my county, we have milk clot whereas somebody in Garissa is dying because of hunger and yet we are in the same country? The Mover of the Motion talked about the rapid response unit. In my tenure, as the Chairperson of Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights (JLAHR), we once visited Brazil which has one of the best rapid response units. When Brumadinho"
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