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    "id": 736552,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/736552/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "people to corruptly acquire wealth. There are people who profit whenever there is a crisis such as the one we find ourselves in. It is unimaginable that you can be addressing shortage of maize, sugar and milk and the skyrocketing of their prices as if you woke up yesterday from some deep slumber. What this country needs to do going forward firstly is that, we need to master the courage to address the matter of the cost of food production. It does not really cost much to support farmers, so that they can have incentives to produce more and more. As way back as last year, it was clear that this country would face a food crisis. I sit in the Departmental Committee on Agriculture here in Parliament. We raised this matter. Last year there was imported fertiliser which was incorrect. Very poor quality fertiliser was imported into this country last year through a dubious process. This is fertiliser which ended up causing havoc in the major grain baskets such as North Rift. It was obvious to all of us that there would be a massive food shortage. You are aware of what has befallen the sugar sub-sector where as we know what needs to be done but people in power have continued to ensure that the sugar sub-sector stays on its knees. The reason is that they get an opportunity to import cheap sugar to make obscene profits at the expense of the lives of the common man."
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