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    "id": 154354,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, yesterday while moving this Motion, I did indicate clearly that it is the spirit of the 10 million Kenyans who slept hungry last night; those who do not have hope of getting any food. It is in that spirit that this Committee sat to just check out what went wrong. What went wrong to a country that was food sufficient to end up being almost paupers to the extent that we have reports from the media of people eating roots? I want to thank the media for highlighting that. In fact, those who can get roots are lucky. What about the people in Kibera and other places? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we can sit here and debate for ages but without coming to serious remedies in terms of policy that will guarantee our children and our grand children food security, then we will have failed this nation. I want to thank the hon. Members again for the indulgence and particularly for close scrutiny of what goes on in that industry. It is them who proposed the creation of an independent grain bulk handling facility. Grain Bulk Handling was mentioned severally in several quarters and this Committee feels, as reported on page 71, that we need a second grain bulk handling facility with double the capacity of the existing one but to be owned by co-operatives and"
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