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    "id": 872734,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "That is for the record. I did not want Sen. Orengo to mislead the House that it was only Sen. Cherargei. On a more serious note, there is a valid argument being presented by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and seconded by Sen. Wetangula. Sen. Orengo said many things but the way forward was mentioned by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. in terms of standing down the Report for the Committee to present us with all the evidence of adoption that is required. Those of us who come from the maize growing region and the country are watching. It must be known that our people are anxious. They are not just anxious but they are also angry. In as much as this Report captures the way forward, we must approve it in this House for us to find ways of over-sighting those institutions in so far as the way forward is concerned. As we speak, the farmers are unable to deliver their maize to the NCPB and they have no guarantee of getting subsidised fertiliser. As we speak, those who supplied their maize last year have not been paid. Even as we stand down the Committee Report, I beg you to order that this Committee goes to meet now, put their things in order for us to meet here tomorrow. This week should not to pass without this House having ventilated on this Report and agreed on its way forward. Some of us have been asked so many questions on what the Senate is doing. It is not just an individual Senator but us; the House, that would get out there and say that we provide leadership and that we were present and available. That is why I did not move from my seat because of the importance of this Report to all of us, who are maize farmers. If we leave it the way it was, some people would say that some are saving others and some are including others which is not a good spectacle having in mind where we are going. Let the Report be Tabled tomorrow or latest Thursday for us to debate."
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