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    "id": 1184213,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1184213/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marakwet West, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Timothy Kipchumba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to speak on this subject matter. I thank my friend, Hon. Kirwa, for moving this Motion in this House. Importation of maize into this country is a tragedy of monumental proportions. We have enough food supply in this country, especially of maize. It has never happened in the history of this country that we import maize at a time when the North Rift and South Rift are harvesting maize. It has never happened and we condemn the same in the strongest terms possible. If you look at the cost of maize production in this country this year, fertiliser was Ksh7,000, diesel price was high and the price of other farm inputs was also high. Where I come from, the cost totals to between Ksh35,000 to Ksh45,000 per acreage. If maize is imported to the country, prices will drop. That is what we stand to condemn in this House. On the issue of GMO, I have no moral authority to discuss this because I am not a scientist but there is a controversy on whether the same is good or bad for human consumption. If there is a controversy, then this should be discarded because the ban was lifted by the Cabinet or so they say without the consultation of this House. We stand before this House as the true representatives of the people. I am surprised Hon. Speaker that even the Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, the National Assembly Committees and the Members are not aware of this lift on the ban and on the importation of the genetically modified maize. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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