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    "id": 1180132,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1180132/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marakwet East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kangogo Bowen",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I want to appreciate the Leader of the Majority Party for the response he obtained from the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development, Hon. Linturi. The Statement read by the Leader of the Majority Party has given a lot of hope to maize farmers in the country. For the last one week, there has been a lot of frustrations across the country because of the statements that have been made by Hon. Moses Kuria, the Cabinet Secretary for Trade, Investment and Industry. It was very frustrating to tell farmers to harvest their maize within 72 hours or their maize would not be purchased by the Government. There has been a kind of deliberate attempt to kill production of maize in this country. In the last Parliament, and especially in the last Supplementary Budget, there was no single coin that was allocated to the Strategic Grain Reserve (SGR) for purchase of maize from farmers. We went out campaigning on the guaranteed minimum returns promise. We told farmers that we did not want to subsidise consumption, that, instead we would subsidise production. We have a very good The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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