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    "id": 1431828,
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    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga",
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    "content": "There was also exoneration of millers from any form of blame through the contract that the Ministry gave out for signing. In this particular respect, the millers were supposed to be free of blame, whether the maize meal reached the consumers or not. Post-milling responsibility was not given to them. There was no report on delivery of the subsidised maize flour to the consumers. The Ministry of Interior and National Administration was supposed to monitor the last mile consumption, but they did not give us any report. As a Committee, we believe that they may have given it to the Ministry, but the Ministry did not provide this report to us. So, they were charged with that responsibility. There was no report on surveillance of distribution of the maize floor itself to ascertain the selling of the two-kilogram packet of sifted maize meal at Kshs100. There is no such report that was submitted to the Committee by the Ministry. There was also no discussion on the quantities to be supplied at the contractual level. The millers were supposed to produce as much as they could – and sell as much as they could – and submit the invoices to the Ministry for payment. Therefore, there was no specific quantitative contract. It was more or less open. Upon assessment, we discovered that 95.1 per cent of the maize flour that was sold by the Grain Mill Owners’ Association (GMOA) under the subsidy programme could be traced to the consumer and it was sold at the market price of Ksh100 per two-kilogram packet. We went further to find out what exactly happened. We discovered that the farm gate sales from small millers was 93.06 per cent and the volume that was sold through the van sales was 2.94 per cent. On the other hand, only 17.85 per cent of the maize flour that was produced by the CMA was sold directly to the consumers. This is what the Committee was able to trace. Only 9.8 per cent was sold through the marked van sales or branded van sales and only 8.05 per cent was sold through the farm gates or walk-ins. We also noted that a total of Ksh1,337,050,526.28 was paid out to the GMOA while the outstanding balance on account of that particular maize flour subsidy to this association’s membership was Ksh432,751,316.30. On the other hand, we also established that the membership of the CMA that participated in the subsidy programme changed from the initial 27 at the initial presentation to 29. The explanation was that the extra two members had been omitted from the initial list. We also noted that the total invoiced amount by the CMA was Ksh4,495,356,547.10 billion out of which Ksh1,905,845,377.07 had been paid and there was an outstanding balance of Ksh2,589,511,170.05. Hon. Speaker, we also noted that members of the CMA approached the Nairobi Centre for International Arbitration (NCIA) seeking for arbitration to pursue payments of the pending bills arising from the maize flour subsidy programme of the Financial Year 2022/2023."
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