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    "id": 922290,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as a large-scale maize farmer, I am distinguished from Sen. Mwaura. I have a lot of interest on this matter. The crux of this issue from both Sen. (Prof.) Kamar and Sen. Wetangula who led the Committee that dealt with the maize issue, is basically the implementation of the recommendation of that Committee. We have become a nation of so many reports and few doers or implementers. As a country, we pride ourselves as being the nation that took a particular report to Botswana or Ethiopia and they improved their education. You can see how they are implementing a strong energy sector, yet we continue to lag behind. We have brains to work on good reports, however, when it comes to implementation, we have a Government policy that is guided by the wishes of the person who holds office at the particular time. It begs the question, how seriously the reports of this House are considered by the Ministries, not just in the maize sectors but other sectors. If our reports were implemented as they ought to be, the discussion about importation of maize would not have ensued. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Sen. (Prof.) Kamar will tell you that in Moiben Constituency, which is her constituency and some parts of Trans Nzoia, there was a moratorium which was given by the Government through the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) to limit the bags of maize that were to be delivered by farmers to the NCPB. As a result, most of the farmers were not able to deliver the maize to our Strategic Grain Reserves. We also know that many of those farmers still have maize in their houses and stores. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a serious issue. When we were debating the report, I insisted that there were unnecessary road blocks and deliberate decisions of Government to make it impossible for farmers to deliver maize to Government stores. I say this knowing that I struggled to deliver the maize that I have struggled to farm for the purpose of selling to the National Strategic Grain Reserves. These rules were The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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