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    "id": 1255387,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1255387/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 126,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kuria",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Investments, Trade and Industry",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13160,
        "legal_name": "Moses Kuria",
        "slug": "moses-kuria"
    },
    "content": "This country has also allowed the importation of 1.2 million tons of rice despite the fact that we have got rice in Mwea in Kirinyaga County and Ahero in Kisumu County. However, it was necessary because of the drought situation, famine and the food shortage that was there, to manage the cost of living. At the same time, we got approval from the Cabinet to import 125,000 metric tons of edible oil. You will notice that of all those three products, the one with the least amount that was allowed to be imported was edible oil. Maize was 1.4 million metric tons, rice was 1.2 million metric tons and only 100,000 metric tons of edible oil, yet the attention out there is not about rice. The farmers from Mwea and Ahero would be justified to ask why we are importing rice yet they farm rice. However, the farmers of Mwea and Ahero do not have a voice, the deep pocket, the money and the kind of cheque books as would be required to create the kind of noise that has been heard in the media. It is only this item of 125,000 metric tons; out of which the amount of edible oil that has landed in this country is only 300,000 metric tons. That is close to 170,000 jerry"
}