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    "id": 937581,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/937581/?format=api",
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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": "This startling and frightening report was presented to the Committee sitting and hearing in this Chamber in the presence of the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries; hon. Mwangi Kiunjuri. When the Committee visited Eldoret NCPB stores in Uasin Gishu County, it was able to notice and note that almost all the maize cereal in the stores was discolored. On Thursday, 28th February, 2019, this august House unanimously endorsed and approved the Motion adopting the ad hoc Committee’s Report. Members hailed the Committee for an excellent job done and urged speedy implementation of the Committee’s recommendation to improve the maize sector and save Kenyans from possible consumption of harmful maize cereal products. Mr. Speaker, in the last two (2) weeks, the country has witnessed alarming news about the level of aflatoxin in maize cereal products. Kenya Bureau of Standards has subsequently suspended licenses of five (5) major maize millers and banned the sale of products such as Dola, Kifaru, Jembe and 210 maize flour brands. Apart from direct purchases from farmers and some direct imports, most maize millers purchase maize cereals from NCPB stores. The begging questions remain: (1) What did the Ministry and NCPB do with the huge stocks of maize cereals in their stores that were declared by KEBS to be contaminated and unfit for human consumption, 80 per cent and plus to be exact? (2) Were the stocks destroyed as is required by law, or the Government simply maintained a conspiracy of silence hoping the situation would remedy itself? (3) Why did Kenya Bureau of Standards, which has legal authority to do so, not order and superintend the destruction of the contaminated maize as has been seen and noted in other products? We have seen with a lot of fanfare, KEBs supervising the destruction of sugar, edible oils and other things. We have not seen anything about maize. (4) Is the same contaminated maize now the ultimate cause of dangerous maize flour on the shelves for Kenyans to buy and consume? Over 90 per cent of Kenyans constantly eat the popular cereal product known as"
}