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    "id": 922316,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof).Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "Irrigation and the Strategic Grain Reserve Authority. This is so that the country is fully informed of the kind and level of the deficit they are likely to meet. If there will be an importation in order to safeguard the interest of the farmer, the channels of that importation must also be clearly spelt out. We should not have a carteblanche and open cheque for that importation. This is because that has the effect of dampening the prices, causing more pain, agony and difficulties for the farmer. One of these days, they will pull out and this country will be permanently importing this important strategic grain that we need for our daily consumption. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, our children depend on this food and the vegetables that they grow on their farms. This is the only thing they have at the table. How can a person be so merciless to the extent that before they think about the population that voted them into power, they want to import two million bags of maize? I do not blame the President. The CS that he has put in place must wake up to the reality that Kenyans are auditing them. This is why the Senate stands counted for auditing that kind of cavalier attitude of handling matters of such level and magnitude. We make a point and emphasise that strategic grain reserves are important. However, at the same time, any Government must take care of its citizens by preserving the farmers, because they are the only people who create a sustainable stock of any harvest that is available. With those few remarks, I support."
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