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    "id": 877962,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/877962/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Langat",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Andrew Langat",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to bring to the attention of this House that there has been a lot of suspicion in Bungoma and the North Rift regions. The farmers want to know exactly who have put them into this great problem. This Committee that produced this Report has shed light to the people of the North Rif. They now know the culprits who brought all the problems to them with regard to maize and sugar sectors. This high level Committee that made an erratic decision to import maize to the tune of nine million bags, which were not in the Kenya Gazette Notice, is the great enemy of the farmers in the North Rift. The same Inter-Ministerial Committee made a decision in their meeting of 14th November, without a gazette notice, that maize from Mexico was supposed to be imported to the tune of four million bags, and the maize from the local farmers, during the harvesting season, should be reduced to 1.5 million bags. These were the people who made decisions that brought all the problems and opened ways and loopholes for the cartels to bedevil farming in the North Rift and in Bungoma region. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is good that the farmers will know, out of this Report, the real enemies that have put them into the trouble they are in now."
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