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    "id": 1292053,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1292053/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mandago",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13577,
        "legal_name": "Kiplagat Jackson Mandago",
        "slug": "kiplagat-jackson-mandago"
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    "content": "(NCPB) while farmers are suffering. We expect the Committee to take the Ministry to task on why they cannot dry maize for farmers. Secondly, maize prices have dropped and traders are taking advantage of farmers because of the rains we are having. As we speak today, a bag of maize is worth between Kshs3,800 to Kshs3,900. If this is not addressed, then the benefit that was passed to farmers through the subsidized fertilizer will be lost to traders and millers who are not keen to ensure farmers rise from poverty. I expect the Ministry to set a price. We recommend that the price of a 90 kilogramme bag of maize sells at Kshs5,000 to compensate for the rising cost of fuel and the cost of living that has gone up. The Ministry must open the NCPB and establish the strategic grain reserves. We cannot be a nation which in the last four months we were suffering of acute hunger, now when we expect 60 million bags and there is reluctance to take advantage and move the maize into the strategic food reserve. It is clear that we want to go into a spree of asking for importation. We shall be benefiting traders time in and out. I beg the Committee to seriously consider that Statement."
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