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    "id": 873132,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "seriousness of the fact that they have no law to protect the farmers and nobody is paying attention to them. We really hope that county governments will handle this more seriously than it has been. One of the things that confused the report that came from the agencies that came before the Committee was the accuracy of the data. For example, they got something from Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) which is different from Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) and also different from the Cabinet Secretary of Agriculture and Irrigation. So, there is no way in which a person can tell how much of what has come in. Therefore, we also recommended that Government agencies must maintain accurate records without which they must be held responsible. This is because it became extremely difficult for us to quantify or even get the data of the people who imported maize. It was difficult because everybody had different data. We must hold people responsible for this because we do not know whether the data is what it is or somebody mutilated it before presenting it before the Senate. We asked ourselves several times how come what Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has is different from what we have. As I wind up, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to repeat that the current situation of the farmers is very bad. Farmers have been allocated a maximum of 400 bags. For example, in Uasin Gishu County we produce 4.5 million bags and we are only allocated 400 bags. This means that we can only collect one million bags. If that is the case, how shall we encourage these farmers to do any farming? It is very sad. When that was done, it became very cumbersome to deliver the same. The NCPB said that farmers can only deliver bags and they were used to delivering in lorries. Now, farmers who have 10 bags, because the aggregators must utilise their space of 400 bags, must go to NCPB."
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