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    "id": 993779,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. First, I congratulate Sen. Cherargei for coming up with this Statement. As I said earlier, he beat me to this Statement. I once drafted and presented it to the office of the Speaker but I was told there was a similar Statement by Sen. Cherargei who is a brilliant advocate. I have had many past engagements with him but I do not want to go into that now. Sen. Cherargei is seeking for a Statement, therefore, for us, is just to ride on it to get supplementary questions that we need. When I heard the Cabinet Secretary (CS) saying that they will not buy maize from farmers for the Strategic Food Reserve (SFR), I was shocked. In the Statement, I would like to know from the CS, the policy paper that informed the decision to stop buying maize from farmers. Farmers in Trans-Nzoia, Bungoma, Uasin Gishu, Elgeyo-Marakwet, Nandi, West Pokot, Nakuru, Narok and parts of Kericho County have produced a lot of maize to protect this country from food shortage. Madam Temporary Speaker, there was a reason the Governments of Presidents Kenyatta, Moi and Mwai Kibaki saw it necessary to buy maize from farmers. It was to protect farmers but at the same time, to safeguard the food security of the country. Suddenly, not in the first term of the Jubilee administration but in the second term of the Jubilee administration and particularly, somewhere between 2019 and now, there has been something strange. I will be forgiven to imagine that there is a strategic attack of persons and farmers who come from certain places in this country and certain counties, which I think goes beyond Government policy; it is political. We need to call it what it is. There have been certain Cabinet Secretaries who have been behaving in a manner like you have to punish citizens to settle scores with Government officials who they work together with."
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