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    "id": 878046,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "sit and draft gazette notices and release it on 13th April, saying that; ‘we give you up to 31st July’, and on 4th July, before you even get to the end of the first week of July, they renew the gazette notice and push it to 30th September. Before you even reach to August, they revise it again and say on 27th July that they are now moving it to 15th October. I am grateful to this House for ceding to the amendment. An Inter-ministerial Committee sitting sat and said that the ship that is docked in Mombasa with maize that has challenges of documentation be released immediately regardless. I am sure that those challenges must have included the fact that the maize was Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) and unfit for human consumption. That is an Inter- Ministerial Committee chaired by the Head of Public Service. If that is not a crime, I do not know how I would call it. They went further and said that; ‘we direct that 4 million bags of maize be imported from Mexico’. Since when did an Inter-Ministerial Committee become a procurement agency? The least they could say is that we recommend that four million bags of maize be imported subject to procurement procedures. We have evidence on record that at that time, farmers of Uasin Gishu County had harvested 5 million bags, Trans Nzoia had 5 million bags and Bungoma had 4.6 million bags. How do you ask people to import 4 million bags from Mexico and buy 1.5 million bags from Kenyan farmers? Where are our priorities? We are an agricultural country where 75 per cent of the workforce of this country is in the agricultural sector. How do we prioritise our interest?"
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