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    "id": 1255451,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1255451/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kuria",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Investments, Trade and Industrialization",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Kuria",
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    "content": " Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir, and thank you Senator of Nandi County for that question. That is the conversation that I can have every day; about the person with a torn shirt and trouser from Mosoriot. It is also close to my heart that we focus on that farmer because that is what this Government is all about. My short answer is that we did not, as KNTC, import any maize and we have not imported any. We gave approval for duty free from the Ministry of Agriculture to import 1.4 million bags of maize to bridge the need that was there and that has somehow worked to keep us going until the harvest. If we did not do that, by now it could have been a total catastrophe because we also had a delayed rain, especially within the North Rift. We are monitoring the situation. As a matter of fact, the problem with maize is that there is just no maize in our region or neighbourhood. Even in the traditional areas where we get maize such as Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, there is a shortage of maize generally. That is also why we took that step to import high quantities of rice hoping that somehow we can moderate our consumption behaviour from maize to rice. I must say that it is not easy. We hope to overcome it at one time, but our loyalty and fidelity to maize continues and should make the Senator of Nandi County a happy person. I am glad we are where we are because Senator of Nandi was not very happy with me in November when I talked about importing Maize. I hope that now he will confess that I have been vindicated by what has happened over the last seven months. I submit."
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