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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "What we expect from our Cabinet Secretaries, which is the point that I wanted to make before you volunteered additional information, is to bring this information to the fore. However, Sen. Olekina, there is a question that we must ask ourselves. What is it that makes these millers prefer to bring wheat or whatever they are importing from out of the country in total disregard of locally available stocks? Once that question is answered, we will help our farmers produce. Is it a question of quality? Is it a question of price? Whatever the case might be, our millers prefer imports from outside the country. I believe that it is possible for us, as either policymakers or legislators, to find ways in which we can support our farmers. If it is an issue of quality, farmers could produce the kind of quality that the millers are looking for. If it is an issue of price, then we need to ensure that we subsidise them to the point that they become competitive so that the millers can buy. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I hope that our newly constituted Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries will investigate the full details of this particular issue so that we can provide the right intervention to ensure that the farmers enjoy the product of their sweat. On the other hand, the millers also get a product that is available to them at the right quantity, quality and price. That is how a thriving economy works. Let us turn to the committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries with this new challenge that our country faces. I thank you."
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