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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murgor",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to also air my views to those of my colleagues. Firstly, I congratulate the principals; His Excellency the President and the former Prime Minister, Hon. Raila Odinga for their initiating the dialogue that brought the country together. It calmed down the noise that was there and pointed the country in the right direction. I will comment on the formation of the IEBC and I thank the appointment of the Committee that will look into the Members. Parties are interested in pulling the IEBC in one way or the other. You will find that political parties would like to be favoured in one way or the other. Therefore, neutrality and standing in a position that will not favour either party will be the way to go in the country because if it favours a political party, it will be twisted to the wrong direction. Also, some politicians would like to pull to their side. Therefore, the neutrality of the Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is paramount in taking the country into the next exercise that is ahead of us. On economic stability and improvement, the Government has taken the right direction by looking into the production of food because if there is food stability, anything else can come later. Even if we talk of school fees and all that, as long as people have food to eat, any other urgency will be looked into tomorrow or the other day. Therefore, enhancing the production of food by giving affordable fertiliser to the farmers is a very ideal thing that our government has done. The noises we made and all that could not produce food, but for the Government to have gone to the farmer and to whoever is producing food is was an ideal approach that has availed food and the prices are going down. However, I would like to point out here that the person who is feeling it and having difficulty is the consumer. When you talk to farmers, they are very happy about the prices of their food commodities. I was talking to farmers of Irish potatoes and they said for the first time a bag of the commodity has now hit Kshs2,000 per bag and they are very happy. However, the consumer who is not producing it is feeling the pinch of that price. There is give and take between the consumer and the farmer. So, the President announced at a meeting in Naivasha that a litre of milk is going to cost Kshs50. So, the producer of milk will be very happy while the person consuming will feel the pinch of that price. As my colleagues have said about putting the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) and all the other funds in the Constitution, it is very right. I would like to say here that for the Members of County Assemblies"
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