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    "id": 877934,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/877934/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
        "slug": "kipchumba-murkomen"
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    "content": "Government’s reaction to every purported corruption scandal will be to abandon provision of services, will we have a country at all? We will never have a country at all. That reaction that every farmer should go to look for their fertilizer must stop. I want to ask the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson of this Committee to come up with a mechanism of imposing on the Government to continue performing its responsibility of having farm inputs that have subsidized prices. If they cannot do so, they should assist farmers to form cooperative societies that can help them to buy fertilizers at a cheaper price. Those are the two things that if we do right, we can take agriculture forward. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, no one should lie to our farmers that they must always deal with maize. I am a firm, committed, and serious proponent of diversification. The role of our county departments of agriculture is to ensure that they do proper research and lead our farmers to do things that other people do to make money. This is not a charity. There are people who were talking to maize farmers like they are performing a charitable work and must continue doing that work in this country. County governments must be able to do so. Lastly, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the fight against corruption, the worst form of corruption is to accuse someone of a crime they did not commit. There are some people who are looking at this Report and looking for certain names. Where is Sen. Murkomen’s name? Why is Sen. Orengo’s name is not here? Why is Sen. (Prof.) Kamar’s name is not there? They survive on politicization of corruption. I see newspapers in this country which cannot sell without ---"
}