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    "id": 461296,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity. From the outset, I want to thank the Committee that placed me in PIC. For that, I have a reason to tell my people of Chuka Igamba-Ngombe that the constituency is in the only county in Kenya which does not have NCPB storage facility. For avoidance of doubt, for those who do not know what NCPB does, it is the body that normally regulates the availability of maize in the market and also the prices. When there is too much production, they take the grain and store it, so that we do not have flooding in the market and farmers are not exploited because of low prices. Then when there is a shortage, to avoid the prices going up, they normally release the maize so that again, farmers are not exploited. You can imagine what has been happening for the last few months. Since the time the properties were attached, the price of maize has been going up. Without mincing my words, this scandal is much bigger than the Goldenberg, Anglo Leasing and anything else that has happened in Kenya because it touches directly on the food reserves of poor wananchi . It is about Wanjiku and the common man. It has nothing to do with the big traders and the people in the higher society. If you look at this report and the organisations that have been mentioned, you wonder what has happened to morality in Kenya. From this report, when the contract was advertised, one company of a famous lawyer called Ahmednassir, bought the tender documents even though they did not return them according to the report. Later in the report, the same Ahmednassir’s company is the one that represents Erad Company in defrauding the Government. I remember when that lawyer came to PIC, he said he took the case because he looked at the simplicity of the case. That it was one of the easiest cases that he could handle without giving a thought or reference to Kenyans or what was going to happen when NCPB is taken away. He could be the “grand murray” of the Judiciary, but you do not “grand murray” with Kenyans in this particular case. When drought was declared in 2004 - and I want to concur with the Leader of the Majority - that may have been a very artificial drought."
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