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    "id": 67647,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/67647/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
        "slug": "margaret-kamar"
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    "content": "It has always been known that Kenya is 20 per cent productive and 80 per cent arid and semi-arid. The question has always been: Why are we rushing at the very last minute when we should have been planning? I would like to support those who have said that we must plan. We must plan with food security in mind because there is need for us to take care of the whole chain from the producers to the consumers. I only came from Eldoret three days ago and as I leftt, there was one kilometre of vehicles trying to queue or fight to access the gate of the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) depot to sell their maize. We also have the same problem with wheat. Our wheat has not been bought, and the question you ask yourself when you see on TV that there are people who are suffering is: Why is there no connection between them and us? In fact, at one point, I remember somebody calling and saying: “Can we talk to the counties directly and sell our produce to them directly?” This is so because there seems to be no systematic way in which we can collect this food and make it reach Kenyans. It is a pity that Kenyans who pay taxes--- They are not on duty free or tax free status within this country. So, they pay for the very taxes that we are using to subsidize fertilizers. Those are the taxes that they should be enjoying."
}