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    "id": 993792,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kihika",
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        "legal_name": "Susan Wakarura Kihika",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also rise to support and congratulate Sen. Cherargei for this very important Statement that he has brought to the House. As the Senator of Nakuru, we are also big in farming and that is the major thing that we do down there, in case there are some here who have not visited or are not very familiar with that County. When we hear such directives that the Government will not buy maize from farmers but will be importing four million bags of maize, it is actually shocking. What I would also want to bring out even as the Committee goes ahead to do the good job of getting to the bottom of this matter is, what would inform such a crazy decision, if I may call it that? First, we are a country whose one of the Big Four Agenda - if that still exists - is food security. When we have farmers who all year round cultivate their farms and grow maize, really, it is common sense buying from them will be a win-win situation for the farmers. This is not only because they are going to get some money from having farmed all the year round, but also good for the Government because it would be able to have maize, which would go towards food security. We then have a directive that they are not going to be buying maize from farmers. When such a decision is made to get four million bags of maize, yet they have not mopped up the maize in the country, then it is important for us to understand what really informed such a decision. Surely, there is either somebody that is making this decision, be it at the cabinet level, I am not sure at what level it is made. However, it seems like a stupid decision."
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