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    "id": 1431827,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Second Report of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock on the inquiry into the maize flour subsidy programme for the Financial Year 2022/2023, laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 27th February 2024. Hon. Speaker, the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock tabled a preliminary Report on the same inquiry in the House on Wednesday, 7th June 2023. The Committee’s Report was adopted by the House on Thursday, 3rd August 2023. In order to get further clarifications on some of the outstanding issues, the Committee held meetings with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, the Cereal Millers Association (CMA) and the millers who participated in the programme independently and not necessarily the Grain Millers Owners Association (GMOA), whose Report we had already concluded. The Committee observed several things from the meetings, and I wish to inform the House accordingly. Hon. Speaker, there was a disconnect between the President’s Speech and the adopted implementation framework of the Subsidy Programme. According to the presidential directive, the subsidy programme was supposed to be implemented through a waiver of Import Duty. However, the Ministry decided to reduce the price of maize flour from Ksh220 per two-kilogram packet to Ksh100. The second issue we observed is that there was failure by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development to make changes on the contract as proposed by the Office of the Attorney- General. The Attorney-General clearly proposed that there should be provision for suspension of contract because that provision was not in the contract. The Attorney-General also proposed that there should be provision for termination of contract should there be inadequate exchequer release, according to Article 14(2) of that particular contract. The other issue that he noted is the failure to deal with the provision on the account should there be no provision. 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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