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    "id": 178560,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/178560/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. A lot has been said. Food is one of the basic necessities of life. A country that cannot provide food to its citizenry, as one of us said, that country is doomed. Since many of us have talked a lot, I want to take a totally different dimension and mention that we were made to understand that the Government was doing something to make sure that our 3646 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 26, 2008 people do not starve. We were expecting the NCPB to sell maize directly to the millers so that we cut off the brokers who are fleecing this country. They are taking a lot of money from us and making our people starve because of their greed. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is really amazing that the leaders of this country are the ones who are making our people to starve; the politicians! To be precise, the Members of Parliament! Unfortunately, some of them who are even pushing for Grand Opposition to check the Government are the same ones who are buying maize from NCPB at Kshs1,700 and then selling it to millers at Kshs2,400. Today, they are seated here lamenting and complaining."
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