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    "id": 67707,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/67707/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Mugo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Public Health and Sanitation",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 85,
        "legal_name": "Beth Wambui Mugo",
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    "content": "I also want to inform my colleagues in the Government that we have a lot of afflatoxin affected maize filling all our silos all over the country. My Ministry has been to court and we have acquired destruction permits for this maize, especially in Embu, where we are holding over 31,000 bags of maize. If all this afflatoxin affected maize is destroyed in accordance with the court order as soon as possible, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of State for Special Programmes will be able to buy food from farmers and store it. We know that the Government has released enough money for purchase of maize. We have seen that farmers have the maize. We do not need to bring in maize from outside the country. We have enough maize, but we also have to clear our silos and buy maize from farmers. I want to urge the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) to act, because we have taken over four years to destroy some of this maize. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to add my voice to that of other hon. Members in inviting hon. Members to attend the HIV/AIDS workshop in Mombasa, so that we can all be at the forefront in fighting this disease. After all, hon. Members are part of the Committees that deal with HIV/AIDS on the ground. That way, we can all be reading from the same script. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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