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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need to take care of the protection of the farmer against these crooked traders. The problem with Kenyan traders and the majority of them is that they are very keen to make quick bucks and they will go to any length. It is not even the traders; it is actually the Kenyan psyche to the extent that if you get involved in an accident on the highway, there are good Samaritans who come to help you out of the accident and there are crooks who come to strip you even when you are dying. They inspect your pockets while you are bleeding profusely. With devolution, I think and I want to encourage the distinguished Senator for Meru who is privileged to chair the Committee of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries that I believe this is one of the most critical committees on devolution. If counties cannot feed themselves, they are unlikely to go anywhere. I would want the Committee to even advise the counties that if a county, for example, Trans Nzoia that produces a third of the maize cereal of this country, can be able to enter into arrangements and agreements with counties with serious food deficits like Turkana, Wajir and Mandera, so that when they harvest their crop, instead of those with food deficits wasting money paying three to four times the market value of food, they should engage with Trans Nzoia and request to be given, for example, as Turkana, 20,000 bags of maize. Then they budget for it and they harvest, deliver it to Turkana and they pay them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this will happen if the farmer is helped to produce. Kenyans should never fall in the trap called “ Soko Huru” . Soko Huru is what has The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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