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    "id": 128996,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/128996/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muthama",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Nduya Muthama",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to thank you for giving me the opportunity to support this very important Motion that has been brought by hon. Kaino. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is extremely important to recognize that this country has suffered since the time we attained Independence. I do remember that when I was a young boy, immediately after Independence, Kenya was given food by the late President J.F. Kennedy. We have continued on the same pace since that time up to today. The planning by the Government has been extremely wrong. After 46 years since Independence, we are still begging and asking for food from foreign countries. This country has got what it takes to grow enough food, but the problem has been planning within Government organs. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, my friend here has talked about potatoes. I want to go beyond the potatoes. We need to have stores that can preserve our harvests. We grow sweet potatoes in this country, but when it is harvesting time, we allow our bumper harvest to go to waste because nothing is preserved. The same happens to crops like cassavas, pumpkins, maize and beans. Instead of this Government spending money to construct administrative offices, it should divert it to build stores and cooling plants that can preserve food. If that was done, the Government would have bought all the pumpkins, store them and sell them to Kenyans in future and there would be no shortage of food then. The same should apply to sweet potatoes and other harvested crops. It is a big shame to see money being spent to fuel the big cars used by Ministers. This is the"
}