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    "id": 1221184,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I join the rest of my colleagues in contributing to this Statement by our colleague, Sen. Kinyua. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is one of the signature programmes of the Kenya Kwanza Administration. We promised the people of Kenya and they granted us an opportunity to implement. While our predecessors, the ‘hand-shake’ administration used to subsidize consumption, we thought it wise and economist worldwide will agree with us, that the proper thing to do is to subsidize production. Make it possible to produce cheaply and therefore, eventually, ordinary citizens will benefit by buying cheap products at the shop. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am a little bit perturbed listening to the contributions of our colleagues. You will realize that many of them have not been keen in following up this particular programme. I am sure, if you listen to the Senators that have contributed, perhaps, some of them have not followed through to first understand the programme and the number of NCPB stores that are in their counties. Many of the contributions are what we call armchair. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the unfortunate event that you represent a particular county that has not been featured in this particular programme, then I cannot wait to just make an ordinary contribution, to a Statement that has been sought by another Senator. By now, I would already be at the offices of the CS for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and demand for more prudent answers than just making a contribution in the Senate because I know for a fact that this programme is being ran across the country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, farmers are asked to first register and secondly which is most important, to select the NCPB store, nearest to them. I agree with colleagues who have said that perhaps in most cases, and I have seen it in my county of Kericho, that because of the first structure of rolling out this programme, that the last mile element either is not"
}