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    "id": 1488437,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1488437/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Elgeyo Marakwet County, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caroline Ng’elechei",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I support my colleague from Uasin Gishu County, Hon. DK. There is a saying that failure to plan is planning to fail. We have seen months in this country that people go without food. It is harvesting time for maize farmers in the North Rift and they have surplus which they cannot store in their own granaries. It is high time the country started planning for bad days ahead, the days when every part of the country will need that crop. It is about time we planned and mopped up the maize in farmers’ granaries. Farmers are crying because they are selling a bag of maize at Ksh2,400. They are not able to recoup their investments. If we allow middlemen who have the capacity to store the produce, they will buy it very cheaply and sell it later. The farmer who has done the donkey work will not have benefitted. That is my humble plea. We should look at the future by buying the maize from farmers. Thank you."
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