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    "id": 737877,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/737877/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2960,
        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "waiting for the slightest signal to ship it in. As we speak, we are being told that about 30,000 tonnes of maize which was supposedly coming from Mexico has docked in the port of Mombasa and is being distributed to the millers to reduce the price of maize flour. You ask yourself this: If the maize that is being said to have been imported was, indeed, imported by private players, private business people, what on earth necessitated a whole CS leaving Nairobi at taxpayers’ expense, going to the Port of Mombasa to receive maize which has been imported by private business people? Are we really being serious with ourselves? Something must be happening which we are not being told. It is time the Government and those who are involved in its running came out clearly to tell Kenyans exactly what they are up to. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I seek your indulgence to add me two or three minutes to deal with this matter conclusively. We cannot have a Government that is being run by cartels. Those cartels are all over. They are not only in the maize sector, but they are all over, even in the milk sub-sector. It is a whole cartel. The other day, they entered into some agreement with Uganda to be importing sugar, which is not even in that country. Uganda, itself, has no surplus sugar to export to anybody. They entered into some agreement that Uganda should export its sugar to Kenya and they export milk to Uganda. Those basically are pure private business agreements and then they involve the State. For how long is this country going to be run like a “banana republic”? Kenyans have a destiny with history. This country---"
}