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    "id": 874368,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker allow me to thank you for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this debate. I want to begin by commending the ad hoc Committee that was tasked with this work. They have done a commendable job and it has to go on record. This is a very important Motion on the issue of maize, which is a staple food in Kenya. Being a staple food, you will find that in most households, people eat ugali. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Motion is even speaking to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 and 2, which seek to eliminate any form of poverty and ensure that there is zero hunger. This Committee did a commendable job. The Committee’s findings should not be just left to go like that; they must be taken with a lot of seriousness they deserve. We are here, as a Senate, to represent the counties, all the constituencies in the counties and we must feel the pinch of the farmer. I am happy about to learn that farmers are being paid, and that almost all of them have been paid. There is need for us to come up with guidelines that will ensure that farmers will not continue to suffer because of lacking markets for their produce, year-in, year-out. This is very discouraging. As a country, we have a duty to defend our farmers. If we do not protect them, who will protect them? They will be helpless. Madam Temporary Speaker, agriculture is important. That is why the Maputo Declaration resolved that 10 per cent of the national budget should go to agriculture. It is important for us, as a nation, to take the recommendations contained in the Report seriously. It is also commendable that the President declared that all stores should be open, and that farmers should take their produce and be paid for. It is unfortunate---"
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