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    "id": 849010,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/849010/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, just like in the sugar sector, we want to see maize farmers have their own mills. I want to recognise in this House the work that is being done by my friend and Governor of Uasin Gishu County, Gov. Mandago. He is running a very good programme of putting together all farmers in a Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisation (SACCO). He has told farmers that instead of them selling maize to the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) or other millers, they should establish their own milling plant, so that they can have control of the product from when they farm to when they add value. This will ensure that they sell it at a price that will benefit them. That will not be possible if we continue having AFA as a moribund institution that is not targeted to focus on tea, cotton and coffee. There is the price of Kshs2,300 per bag that that has been set. All of us who come from that region still insist that maize should be sold at Kshs3,500 per bag, but for how long will that be sustainable? We can do that this year and the Government may or may not yield to pressure. They may yield to pressure just before elections."
}