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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I would like to thank Hon. Opiyo Wandayi for this timely debate this evening. Is the cost of living high? Yes. Are we living through difficult time as a country? Yes. Does the Kenya Kwanza administration have an agenda and a solution? Let me demonstrate to you why my answer is yes. Subsidies are one method for reducing the price of a product. There are two categories of subsidies: production subsidies and consumption subsidies. To subsidise consumption, economic theories stipulate that certain conditions must be satisfied. You must know who the producers are and have a defined system for how the production will be carried out, neither of which exist in our product for unga. Let me give an example. If you wish to subsidise unga, are the millers compensated? How do you determine the quantity of maize flour or unga in the mills, given that these are private entities, even if you were to determine how many tonnes of maize flour exist with the millers to pay them the subsidy to reduce the price of the maize flour? There is an entire quantity of unga in transit at any given time, as well as the remainder of unga with distributors, retailers, and wholesalers. Therefore, no matter how hard you attempt to subsidise production, where there is no clear line and the Government has no control, you will fail. That is the reason we went for the option of production subsidy. Who are the producers of u nga? It is the maize farmers. We know them. We registered them and we have given them fertilizers at Ksh3,500 per bag so that we can bring down the cost of production."
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