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    "id": 737895,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Korir",
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        "id": 1356,
        "legal_name": "Wesley Kipchumba Korir",
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    "content": "way. Our nation has become a nation that is run by cartels. I remember very well that His Excellency the Presidents once said that the problem he is facing as a president is the cartels that have been able to infiltrate into the nation’s main ministries. That is happening even with the crisis of unga that we are facing right now as a country. I am a farmer. I grow a lot of maize and the people of Cherangany grow a lot of maize. If you come to Cherangany right now – and I would like to invite all Members of this House to visit Cherangany one day – you will see for yourself how beautiful maize is growing in that area. We have been a maize growing area for decades. My parents and grandparents grew maize. The number of bags we have produced has never reduced. We keep on producing. I want to tell you, this nation and this House one thing, that the problem we have been facing is not the beautiful nature of our maize as we grow, but it is when the time comes to sell our maize. We get so frustrated. The prices we get are always lower. Farmers are not motivated to grow maize next year. You have worked for the whole year waiting for maize to grow, but when it grows, you get so frustrated by the same Government that is supposed to help you get value for your sweat. Will you plant next year? If we were serious as a nation about the issues we are facing right now, we should be putting our farmers first instead of putting billions of money into Galana-Kulalu Irrigation Scheme. We should be putting those billions of money to encourage our farmers out there to grow more maize. As we speak now, one litre of milk in our market is retailing at Kshs160 and yet, the same farmer that produces milk from Cherangany - as the market retail price of milk is going up in the market - still get the same price of Kshs32 as he got last year. What is happening? Who is making money? Who is fooling who? If the price of milk of a farmer was growing to Kshs50 or Kshs60 or Kshs70, we would agree that the price of milk in the shop should go up. If the price of milk from the farmer is still the same, why is the price of milk going up in the market? It is because we have let our country to be controlled by cartels who decide how much they want to sell milk or unga ."
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