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"speaker_name": "Hon. Linturi",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development",
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"legal_name": "Franklin Mithika Linturi",
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"content": "we had not collected taxes or borrowed money to pay, we would not have paid those farmers. When we appreciate that paying taxes is our collective responsibility as responsible citizens to run the affairs of our country. That is when we will claim our sovereignty. There is no respect when you go begging out there. I have been out of this country. Actually, the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is waiting for me in his office. I found myself in an embarrassing situation because that is the time when the country was infested with armyworms and locusts. I was not comfortable borrowing those people money to deal with armyworms. They gave me an air tractor to spray armyworms and fight Quelea birds that feed on maize. It is not the best place to be in my position where you have to sit down with a"
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