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    "id": 874373,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/874373/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seneta",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for also giving me a chance to speak and air my voice on this very important Motion on the Report of the ad hoc Committee on the maize crisis in Kenya. From the onset, I want to congratulate the Committee, which I was also a Member, for the work they did. I want also to thank the Office of the Speaker and the Secretariat because of the support we received during this particular time when we were investigating the maize crisis. This was the first time I felt very sad as one of the children who had been brought up by farmers in this country. We met several farmers who were very frustrated, demotivated and discouraged about farming. Many of them asked us whether we are supposed to encourage agriculture, or whether we just forget about food production and go to other service delivery sectors like Safaricom. This is all because of the frustrations that these farmers have undergone. I want, from the outset, to say that I support the amendment on the inclusion of the Inter-Ministerial Committee that sat down to agree that there was need to import maize to the country at that particular time. This was an economic crime. Why am I saying so? Because you cannot do a gazette notice that is just open, authorizing the importation of maize without indicating how much maize you need at that particular time; or who is supposed to import or whether there was a budgetary allocation for it."
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