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    "id": 1277805,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John K. Mutunga",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you very much for the opportunity to reply on the Motion, the inquiry into the maize flour subsidy of last year. I would like to thank the Members who had an opportunity to speak to this Motion especially those who had an opportunity to read the Report. It is a synthesis Report. It does not contain everything that we were presented with because we were dealing with close to 118 organisations that submitted individual reports. Annexing them would have needed a week to bring the reports here. So, as a Committee, we took time to understand what they were saying and we took time to interrogate what they presented to us and wrote a synthesised Report which basically enables us to decide as a House. All the Members who spoke without exception recognised that the prices of unga were high last year. They also recognised the fact that it was necessary for the Government to intervene to bring the prices of maize flour down. They appreciated the fact that the Government intervened to reduce the cost of unga . The Report basically captures the variety of ways that we can subsidise the cost and they are several. They fall basically under two broad categories: supply and demand. Demand in this particular case is where you subsidise cost of a product as it is. The strategy adopted by the Kenya Kwanza Government right now is that the subsidy goes to lowering the cost of inputs. Many countries apply some of these strategies. It is not only Kenya that does that. We listened to submissions from the Ministry and from the two main associations that were contracted. They gave us a lot of information. We got written submissions from the Attorney-General and from the different institutions that were involved. The context of the Report itself gave us some highlights that made us go into the inquiry process. One of them was lack of clarity on some of the membership of committees. Some were changing. 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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