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    "id": 178542,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Eseli",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is coincidental. This is a very serious moment because we have said this in this House before, that there was going to be a food shortage in this country and the Government refused to listen. If a Government cannot feed its people, why are you building them roads? If you cannot feed your people, why are you building them airstrips and airports? What game is this? I have said this before and I will repeat it: In 1962, at Independence, we conceived two twins, impunity and corruption. They were delivered in 1963 when we became a Republic under a President. These two twins are now in their prime 40s, stealing left, right and centre. We have to slay the dragon now! I do not understand it. How do you impoverish your own farmers? You buy maize from farmers at a throwaway prize of Kshs1,700, then, using some cloudy and shady middlemen, the maize from the NCPB ends up with the millers at Kshs2,400 plus. The person making the profit in between is the middleman, and the farmer has hardly made anything. When the flour gets to the mwananchi, it is beyond their reach! Why are we doing this? Have we lost all sensitivity? Is the love of money so great that we cannot just avoid it? We just have to have money, irrespective of who suffers, even if it is our voters? If that is the case, then I think the Government has no business calling its self the Government."
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