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    "id": 874356,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support the amendments. Communication was not done by the Chairperson that there is another extra bundle of document – about 600 pages long – in the Journals Office that explains how the Inter-Ministerial Committee is being put back into this recommendation. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have seen these recommendations, but I will only highlight one. The CS for the National Treasury and the CS for the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation must take responsibility for the gazette notice which led to the flooding of maize imports, leading to distortion of the local market and disadvantaging the local farmers. On page 63 of the bundle which supports this report, the Inter-Ministerial Committee made a decision on 14th November, 2017. Minute No.1 reads as follows- “Immediate measures- (1) The Government should immediately buy 1,143,390 bags of maize at a cost of Kshs3,200 each at the stock being held by millers including to cater for November and December shortfall at a cost of Kshs3,000,658,560, of which the subsidy cost is Kshs1,486,290,000. (2) The Government should immediately buy 4 million bags of physical maize stocks from Mexico; 1.7 million bags for December and January and 9,800 bags for February and March. (3) The Government should buy 1.5 million bags of 90 kilograms from local farmers.” The recommendation talks about flooding of markets with imports. This recommendation was made by the Inter-Ministerial Committee to buy maize, amongst other things, from Mexico. Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, to refuse this amendment is to water down this report. At some point I was wondering how this omission was done, because it would have been a grave omission. Madam Temporary Speaker, the gazette notice is the precursor to the flooding. I believe that this is a criminal enterprise. Therefore, we must tie, from the beginning, the preparation to commit the crime with the crime itself. The crime was committed when the gazette notice was issued, and it was completed when this Inter-Ministerial Committee imported 4 million bags from Mexico, amongst other things. We must hold them in law, jointly and severally liable. I beg to support."
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