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    "id": 1431855,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Moiben, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Phylis Bartoo",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "to get money out of the exchequer. Possibly – who knows – it was to support the 2022 campaigns. It is also very interesting that most of the millers who participated in that exercise were those moneyed, large-scale millers. Those who were left out were the small-scale millers, who would also have benefited from the subsidy program if its intention was to actually transform the lives of the people. In that case, the rich millers were the people who had money and could sponsor campaigns, and later claim their money from the Government. So, that begs the question: Were the large-scale millers more efficient than the small-scale millers? When you look at the Report, it is very clear from the payments that the millers were paid after submission of records. It is not clear who consumed the maize flour. Personally, I did not come across anybody or a household that consumed that subsidised maize flour. Possibly, it was just a scam. One got a tender, filed records and they got paid. So, somebody must take responsibility because it was actually a scam. It is also very clear from the Report that, possibly, some millers did not do anything. They were just briefcase millers. They got the tender, submitted the records and then they went up to the tail-end to collect money and then they disappeared. There was no evidence. We cannot follow a clear route to find out if a particular person supplied and milled maize flour. We cannot trace that exercise. I want to thank the Committee for taking their time to dig deeper and come out with a very comprehensive Report. It is an eye-opener. Those people who were paid without milling any maize flour should be prosecuted and the hard-earned Kenyan Exchequer money should be returned. They should be punished for the illegality of duping Kenyans on maize flour. It was a flawed process. I can see my time is over."
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