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    "content": "this is delivered. Therefore, one of the resolutions we passed is that farmers must be allowed to deliver whatever they still have. That might help next year’s crop because, as I said, nobody knows what we are going to harvest this year. We had heavy rains, leading to late planting; now we have the army worms and the fact that people did not have inputs. Some of the crops were planted without fertilizer because the same farmers are still suffering. Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, we also think and strongly believe that there is need to do the investigations that the Government has initiated. As leaders and farmers, we truly support what the Government is doing and emphasize that the investigations must be very thorough. When we say that the investigations must be very thorough, we want the full list of everybody who delivered maize in this season from late 2017 and early 2018. This is because the list that we saw of 19 people was very small. It was not even accounting for 30 per cent of the crop that was delivered and, therefore, it is telling us nothing. We would like to see that full list so that all of us are satisfied on who actually delivered maize. Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, we are also saying that when we are dealing with this audit, the millers must also be audited. When did they use the privilege that was given to them and for how long was it used? This is because in all this fiasco, we have not heard any complaints from any miller, which means that they are also having full stores. That is why the NCPB cannot release space for the farmers who still have the grain. If that is the case, then we need to know who actually delivered the grain beyond October."
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