{"id":461297,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/461297/?format=json","text_counter":240,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Njuki","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":1372,"legal_name":"Onesmus Muthomi Njuki","slug":"onesmus-muthomi-njuki"},"content":"There was a shortage of 180,000 metric tonnes of maize because, at the end of the day, all the companies supplied only 70,000 metric tonnes of maize, leaving a shortage of 110,000 metric tonnes of maize. I have not heard of a report of any Kenyan who died out of that crisis because of the shortage of maize. That means there is a possibility that there was a very artificial shortage of maize in that particular case."}