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    "content": "We, therefore, changed the name for posterity to ensure that there is consistency and the implementation of that programme is not politicized. It is, therefore going to assist even our coming generation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the second group of people who must benefit from this Bill are the Early Childhood Development (ECD) pupils. I am alive to the fact that ECD education is a devolved function and it is the mandate of the county governments to ensure that they adequately fund the ECD. It is the mandate of the county governments to ensure that they provide money for the feeding programmes in the ECD. A hungry child is an angry child. We cannot develop this country with empty stomachs. I want to request that we ensure the feeding programmes in our country are monitored down to the county levels. I am very delighted with the establishment of the Food Security Authority. This must also expand its mandate to ensure that they regulate the importation of maize, sugar and other food substances. This country has suffered because of lack of a proper policy to guide the importation of food substances. The problem is how we implement or sort out our problems. For example, last year, this country suffered shortage of maize and, therefore, the Government imported a lot of maize. But by the time farmers were harvesting, the imported maize had flooded the market and, therefore, the prices offered to the farmers were very low. This discouraged them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the only way farmers would dispose their goods was to sell maize to the neighboring countries like South Sudan and Uganda. This in itself provided that the country would experience another shortage. This is just a cycle. We over import, flood the markets, affect the prices of the harvest and then the farmers decide to sell out their produce to other countries and as a result, causing another shortage. This body should look into the issue of regulating the importation of food substance. For this to happen, we need to motivate the small-scale famers who are suffering. They are not motivated in the sense that they are competing with big established business entities. It is very sad to note that in Kakamega Town, a mama mboga who sells her"
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