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    "id": 178539,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/178539/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "3640 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 26, 2008 This is the reason we are here today. It is known, and it is in the public domain, that the NCPB should be selling a 90-kilogramme bag of maize to the millers at Kshs1,700. That works out to a mere Kshs40 per two-kilogramme packet. Why and how then is it possible that after maize leaves the NCPB by the time it ends up in our supermarkets, the price has exploded three times? It must be because of these greedy and selfish people! This House has a duty to unmask these people. This House owes it to the people of Kenya to get to know who this is; who is so heartless that they do not care whether a family in Rarieda is going without food? We owe it to this country! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I call upon the various Committees of this House, and even the Executive--- We have the Public Investments Committee and the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade. We owe it to the Republic of Kenya and the people of Kenya to unmask these people. In conclusion, I want to say that the Government must ensure that all Kenyans, wherever they are, are able, as a minimum, to afford basic foodstuffs. This is a matter of life and death! If we think that we are going to sit here as hon. Members - we are the privileged lot, no doubt about it - and ignore the plight of Kenyans, who cannot even afford the most basic of foodstuffs, then I can tell you, without any doubt in my mind whatsoever, that what we are creating is a fertile ground for social implosion. With those few remarks, I beg to move and ask Dr. Eseli---"
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