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    "id": 172036,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/172036/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Samoei",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 204,
        "legal_name": "William Samoei Ruto",
        "slug": "william-ruto"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me also respond to the issue that was raised by hon. Thuo as to why are we paying our farmers Kshs1,250 per bag and paying more for maize that we are importing from outside the country. Let me answer it this way: The money we are using to buy maize is taxpayers' money and if we want to spend taxpayers' money to buy maize from outside and enhance our maize in the country, that is why we are going this extra mile. We would not be spending a coin if we had enough maize in this country. I have taken due note. Immediately I moved into the Ministry of Agriculture, I found out that the reason why we ended up in this mess is because we only had 1.6 million bags of maize in June. That is all the maize we had. We did not have sufficient stocks. We did not have sufficient grains in the SGR and that is why the first business that I did in my first weeks at the Ministry of Agriculture was to enhance the SGR from 3 million to 8 million so that---"
}