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    "id": 80872,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Kosgei",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13,
        "legal_name": "Lucas Kipkosgei Chepkitony",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a point of information. This is not to say that the Assistant Minister is not competent. He has the right answer and we have gone through it. However, the last question had to do with the fact that the Government said that the price of maize is Kshs1,800 per bag and that the farmers were still being paid Kshs1,500 per bag. That is correct. The reason for that is very simple. As you may have learnt from elsewhere, the Government is pressing for Kshs1,800 per bag of maize, and I announced that in Kitale. However, the way Ministries function is that they have to get a note to that effect from those who prepare those minutes. The relevant Ministry, which is not the Ministry of Agriculture, did not get that statement. I went back to the Cabinet this morning and my colleagues and I wanted to know why that note has not arrived. We have now been told that it will arrive. There was a technical error somewhere. It may be a human error, but the price - and I would like to repeat this - is Kshs1,800 per bag of maize. That is what has been decided. The purchaser is not the Ministry of Agriculture but the Ministry of State for Special Programmes. However, we have worked together to arrive at that price."
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