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    "id": 48102,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker for remembering me at this late hour. Let me say a few things. I have been told, reliably, by three millers that, within the next three to four days, the country will run out of maize to mill. The Government is holding its reserves. I want to urge the Government, since it has authorized importation of maize, to release maize that is in storage to the market. I had gone home last weekend and found out that a two kilogramme tin of maize was selling at Kshs120 at Akala Market. I wonder where my people are supposed to get money to buy it and yet, the Government is holding reserves. I think it is the responsibility of the Government, and the Ministry of Agriculture, in particular, to control the price of grains. That is easy. You do not have to talk about it. Just release the grains into the market. When you import grains, you replenish what you have released. I also want to say that the cartels - the people who have been minting money selling fuel, paraffin and gas to our people - have done it for so long. They have gone, for very many years, in the wrong direction and we must now put our foot down. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance came here and announced that he had taken some measures which would have reduced the price of paraffin by Kshs2. Even the measly Kshs2 reduction has never been realized. The Minister for Energy has been talking about it and yet, the oil cartels are talking back at him as if they own the country. Something has to be done. The cartels must be reined in. The National Oil Company of Kenya (NOCK) must release the oil reserves that it is holding and flood the market. Let us sell fuel at every street corner. That way, they will begin to talk to us and we shall control prices on behalf of our people. Thank you."
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