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    "id": 195542,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/195542/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Samoei",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 204,
        "legal_name": "William Samoei Ruto",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, indeed, I agree with the hon. Member that some of our farmers are still holed up at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps. The IDPs are looking for concrete steps on how they can go back to normalcy. I think we have the responsibility and duty to make sure that we put in place those concrete steps, so that they can go back to their farms and do what they are used to doing. They do not need the kind of high priests that we now have hanging around pontificating about the problems of the IDPs without suggesting any concrete steps of how to settle them. However, the Ministry has put together a budget of Kshs3.4 billion. We are discussing with the Fund that has been set up to ameliorate the effects of the post-election violence. Using that Fund, depending on how much money we raise, we should be able to look favourably at the farmers. My Ministry, in conjunction with the representatives of the farming community, will be holding a stakeholders' conference. We want to discuss how we can assist farmers who went into the planting season with very high cost of inputs, so that we can discuss the price at which we are going to buy their produce without necessarily affecting the issues about the consumers. So, we April 29, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 709 have a comprehensive plan to deal with that."
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