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    "id": 873697,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/873697/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Were",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Petronila Were Lokorio",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for that guidance. This amendment was necessary to expand the scope of culpability on the maize crisis that we experienced last year. We had the Inter-ministerial Committee that must be included and the entities to be culpable, for example, the Head of Public Service Commission (PSC), who was chairing the Committee, The Ministry of Devolution and ASALs, The Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs and The Ministry of Internal Security and Coordination of National Government under special programmes. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Committee gazetted the haphazard extension of importation of maize. It allowed maize to come in when farmers were harvesting. It also allowed people to import white maize, but restricted people to import the yellow maize and how much maize should be imported. Therefore, it would have been wrong to keep this Inter-ministerial Committee out of the Report as the people who are culpable on the crisis that bedeviled this country last year. Madam Temporary Speaker, I now call upon Sen. (Dr.) Langat to second these amendments."
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