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    "id": 1274424,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Migori County, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Fatuma Mohammed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for the opportunity. Hon. Mutunga, I also appreciate the one minute you have donated to me. I would like to support the Motion. The Kenyans who consumed the subsidised maize benefited. We saved Kenyans from death because hunger can result in such cases. It would be unfair to punish the farmers for selling us maize at a reduced price but refuse to pay them now. It is not fair to play politics with the farmers. We do understand that the subsidy was a product of the last regime. But when something is good, do not deny an opportunity for it to show its goodness just because a new government is in place. I request that this Government honours what the previous Government did. If the Government believes that that was wrong, then even the roads that were constructed by the previous regime should be undone and the tarmac removed because, according to the them, that regime did a bad job. Punishing our farmers is punishing poor Kenyans. The farmers are the ones who feed us. If we do not pay them, it means that they will go broke and be edged out of the farming business. I support this Motion in totality and urge Kenyans to support it. There was an investigation done on the predicaments of small-scale farmers. It was done in broad daylight as it was televised. We all watched it. It is unfortunate that we stand on the Floor of the House and say that we do not support what they said. We had an opportunity to raise this in the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock. Even if you are not a member of that Committee but you saw that what was being shown on television was not right according to you, you had that opportunity to go to the Committee and give out your views. I request the Government to respect the work the last regime did as it was a good idea. I request the Kenya Kwanza Government to also introduce a subsidy on maize so that Kenyans can have food. The high cost of living was one of the reasons why Azimio was on the streets. The main slogan was: ‘we want unga .’ Please, do what is good for Kenyans. Let us stop politics when it comes to the health and life of Kenyans. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support."
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