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    "id": 461207,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/461207/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "It is good to appreciate how this issue came about. In 2004, a number of bureaucrats in the Government decided that there was a drought. In order to ensure that their cartels benefitted, they went ahead and persuaded the Government to declare that there was drought and famine. That was done in August. One-and-a-half months down the line, the same individuals, through correspondences that we are going to avail to this House, declared that there was a bumper harvest and, therefore, there was no need for importation of maize. When the “drought” was declared, the Government mandated the three trustee-Ministries overseeing the Strategic Grain Reserves (SGR), namely, the then Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Special Programmes, to import white maize through the NCPB. Roughly, a total of 180,000 metric tonnes of maize were to be imported."
}