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    "id": 967944,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/967944/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2960,
        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "We have been seeking to talk to the people who handled the maize, but we have not been successful to date. My Committee has recommended, because the matter is recurring in the 2017/2018 Financial Year audit Report, we reopen the matter and dig deeper into it and unravel the faces of the real persons behind this fraud. It sounds like a thriller such that as we speak, the accounting officer together with his officers in the Ministry of Agriculture cannot produce the documents to show the payment vouchers used to pay persons for the amount of maize they imported. They want us to believe that those documents disappeared just somehow from the Ministry. It is a matter we are not recommending for any investigations by the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) or whoever. It is a matter we are still seized of. This is because we know what happens when we recommend to the DCI and the EACC to take over; they shall be doing it in the back rooms. We want to deal with these fellows in the full glare of the media and the public. We want to insist that each and every miller who purportedly brought maize and sold it to the Government; bought it back from the same Government appears before us. That person should tell us how the maize got to the high seas when the country was in need of maize and having a maize shortage and suddenly it got into the country."
}