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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ndwiga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njeru Ndwiga",
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    "content": "As we point a finger at the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Irrigation, I would want us to address ourselves to the counties. For us to be able to do that, we need to capacitate our county governments with funding, so that they can do all those things. Since we have given our county governments that ability through the Warehouse Receipt System Bill, I look forward to them bringing their own legislation on how they will regulate the warehouse receipt system. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when we had public participation, I noted that very many finance institutions and business people are very keen to join this system. I do hope that this will be the end of the cry of the cereals farmers in this country, in terms of which warehouses they can store their produce and the kind of prices that they will get. In conclusion, I would like to tell this House, categorically, that last week, the Ministry did inform my Committee that there would be no importation of maize. Even before they were summoned by the ‘lower House’, they had already told us that. Like I said earlier, we needed the Senator who originated the Statement, to interrogate the Statement and get the assurance of the CS. As the Senate, we want to thank the Government for listening to the cries of Kenyans. We do not want a situation like we had in the last session where our own farmers had so much maize in their own stores, but were not paid after delivering maize to the NCPB. This time, I hope God is on our side because our farmers will be harvesting in the next two months. Those of us in the business system know that if you want to import maize today, there is no way you can get it to the Port of Mombasa within the next two months. Even if you managed to do that, that maize would be more expensive than the locally produced maize. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am happy and want to assure the House and Prof. Kamar, that next week but one, we will still ask the Cabinet Secretary to come, so that we can follow through on the Ad Hoc Committee Report, for the future of production of maize in this country. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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