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    "id": 1274347,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, under the programme, consumers were to purchase a two- kilogramme packet of sifted maize meal at Ksh100 instead of the prevailing Ksh210, in a move aimed at making flour affordable to most Kenyans. In carrying out the inquiry, the Committee held meetings with the Cereal Millers Association, the Grain Owners Association and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development. The Committee also received written submissions on the programme from the National Treasury and Economic Planning and the Office of the Attorney General. The Committee observed as follows. From the meetings and submissions, the Committee observed that the programme may not have achieved its intended objective of supplying sifted white maize flour to citizens in all parts of the country at a price of Ksh100. First, from the submissions of the Cereal Millers Association, the Committee established that the millers manufactured the white sifted maize flour and supplied it to the wholesalers who supplied it to the value-chain. It was not the responsibility of the millers to find out who the maize flour was sold to and if it got to the consumers where it was sold at Ksh100. On the other hand, the Grain Owners Association stated that most of their members The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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