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    "id": 821442,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Soy, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caleb Kositany",
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        "legal_name": "Caleb Kipkemei Kositany",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this petition by Hon. Alfred Keter who is also a farmer. The Leader of the Majority Party is asking which farm. We will take him on a tour of Uasin Gishu and Nandi counties and he will see. The issue at hand is a very key issue that touches on the very people that we sit in this House courtesy of their votes. The reason why our farmers have not been paid is not because the National Treasury does not have money or it has refused to release the money. The money has been released but the EACC wrote a letter to the Cabinet Secretary in charge of agriculture directing him not to pay any farmer until they complete their investigations. We have since also learnt that the functions of the NCPB, which handles the strategic grain reserve, have been moved through an Executive Order to the Ministry of Devolution. We want direction whether through that letter now Hon. Eugene Wamalwa can release the funds. Most of the farmers’ children are in school and are suffering because every single day the principals are asking for the school fees and those farmers need to be paid urgently. One key issue is that many farmers took loans from the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) to finance the production of maize for the last season. Up to now we have farmers who are getting The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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