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    "id": 554881,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/554881/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bowen",
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        "legal_name": "David Kangongo Bowen",
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    "content": "I am also saddened that in this Budget there is a very minimal amount set aside for the purchase of maize from the farmers. I am surprised that hon. Benjamin Langat who is the Chairperson of Finance, Planning and Trade is a farmer from Rift Valley. As we speak, our farmers have a lot of maize which is rotting in their farms. I believe the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee in charge of agriculture, whom I am going to bring a censure Motion against, has really failed the farmers of Rift Valley. How can you pass a budget that is devoid of money required to buy maize? It is very sad that we say Rift Valley is the basket of this country when farmers are crying that their maize is going to waste. I even want to take this opportunity to tell farmers in Rift Valley to pull out all their maize plantations in their farms. They would be better off doing dairy farming. This is because they are incurring losses; they are not making any profit from their produce."
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