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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I agree we should never tolerate it. However, what is managing us today is corruption. Let us all be ready to fight it. Take the case of the farmers in your constituency. The small-scale farmers will continue to suffer because whenever they harvest, all that harvest goes to few people who call themselves middlemen. They will buy a bag of maize at Kshs1, 800 because they know that the farmers do not have facilities to store their produce or reach the other buyers. I hope that we will come back to the next Parliament as people who understand the problem and can be trusted. If the receipt system is started now in my county where there is a lot of maize, people will still suffer. These receipts will come out and everybody will expect it to go on. In the old days, there were no special people to trace a thief. A thief was traceable by 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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