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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Twaha",
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        "legal_name": "Yasin Fahim Twaha",
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    "content": "April 11, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 519 Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to urge the Committee to concentrate on those points. The Committee should find out which Minister signed the Gazette Notice that legalised the theft of the farmers' produce through selling it at controlled prices. It should come up with remedial or punitive measures that should be taken against that particular Minister. We have a tendency in this country where, when Ministers are newly appointed, in order for them to show their muscle, they rush to sign gazette notices which have terrible consequences on our people. They do this just to show that they are working. Some of these gazette notices have fundamental effects on the allocation of resources and the local leaders are not consulted. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in Lamu, for example, we have a marine park, a game park, a heritage and all sorts of resources which we should exploit for the benefit of wananchi, yet you will find some gazette notices that restrict their use and thus keep the local people poor. This creates an artificial shortage of materials, so that the people who are already established can continue to enjoy super-normal profits and can sell their produce at artificially high prices, be it land or the produces that are derived from it. I would like to ask the proposed chairman of the Committee to find out about the scheduled crops. He should find out why the prices of the two crops were controlled in the country when prices of every other crop were liberalised. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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