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    "id": 1274352,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Soy, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Kiplagat",
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    "content": "flour do not know the entire architecture, unlike the large-scale millers. They were just brought in at the eleventh hour and spent their money in supplying the maize for the subsidy. They are in dire financial straits. They took bank loans and the Government has not paid them for a long time. That is why the Committee came to the conclusion that the small-scale millers were very genuine and are currently suffering. We urge this House to approve this Report so that this segment of millers who are struggling like any other Kenyan can be paid to a tune of Ksh500 million which is still pending, so that the ministry does not take more time to alleviate their suffering. Looking at the big fish, the large-scale millers are the ones that sat with the big bosses, designed the programme and executed it. You can imagine the design whereby you have the flour subsidy going for Ksh100, that is a drop from Ksh230 then. But there is no label to indicate that this bag is from the maize subsidy, it does not have the Government of Kenya (GOK) label, and it does not have the subsidised label. What we found is that the brokers and cartels managed to benefit and they might have used that maize flour to create an artificial shortage. I know most of the Members given that you were interacting with the public, getting the maize flour was not an easy thing. It disappeared from our shelves. These cartels took maize and stored it. When the subsidy was stopped suddenly what happened is that the maize flooded the market, but the millers could not sell their maize because there was a lot of it in the stores of cartels."
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