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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Dr. Khalwale has also alluded to notes. I told this House, and I want to repeat, that William Ruto, as the Minister for Agriculture, did not write any note to NCPB or anybody to issue maize. That is not the business of the Minister for Agriculture. However, I write notes myself. I write many of them any day, to request people to assist others. I am yet to be told that there is any criminality in me writing a note to somebody to ask them to assist others. I am yet to know that. Let us be candid, truthful and honest. I want to be told that because of this note, this law was broken. This note influenced the Board to do what they should not have done. That would carry weight before this House. Many hon. Members of Parliament here write notes to me to request for my assistance on this or that. If we criminalise that, no Member of Parliament will ever write a note for assistance, what are we saying? Are we really trying to respond to issues or are we trying to create scapegoats. If the hon. Member could prove that, indeed, Board members are complaining that So and So wrote to us this note and, although we were supposed to do this, we did not because this note instructed us to break the law, then I will take action against those who wrote the notes. Let us be focused on what we want to do because writing a note to say \"please assist\", how does that amount to criminality?"
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