{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=153169","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=153167","results":[{"id":1549872,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549872/?format=json","text_counter":151,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Konoin, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Brighton Yegon","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Temporary Speaker, there was an intervention and the Cabinet Secretary met the concerned parties or stakeholders twice, on 26th February 2025 and on 3rd March 2025, and agreements were made. As to whether the agreements have been honoured, we shall revert to the concerned parties because there is a comprehensive report on the agreements that were made between the Cereal Growers Association, the Cereal Millers Association, the wheat farmers and all stakeholders within the wheat industry."},{"id":1549873,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549873/?format=json","text_counter":152,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Omboko Milemba","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":{"id":13328,"legal_name":"Jeremiah Omboko Milemba","slug":"jeremiah-omboko-milemba"},"content":" Yes, Hon. Member. That will be the last comment on this one. Give the Member the microphone."},{"id":1549874,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549874/?format=json","text_counter":153,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Narok North, JP","speaker_title":"Hon. Agnes Mantaine","speaker":{"id":420,"legal_name":"Richard Moitalel ole Kenta","slug":"richard-moitalel-ole-kenta"},"content":" Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support the Member who raised this issue. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1549875,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549875/?format=json","text_counter":154,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Narok North, JP","speaker_title":"Hon. Agnes Mantaine","speaker":{"id":420,"legal_name":"Richard Moitalel ole Kenta","slug":"richard-moitalel-ole-kenta"},"content":"I am the peoples’ representative and I agree that we met the Cabinet Secretary. Our problem is not whether or not we met the Cabinet Secretary. We had a meeting with the Cabinet Secretary, but the agreements we made were not honoured. Our people are still struggling. Is the Cabinet Secretary aware that certain people imported wheat into the country while our people were harvesting wheat and nobody is buying it? What do they want our people to do? It is wrong for this Government to import wheat while the wheat in Narok has not been bought. What do they want those people to pay their loans with? They have loans and they have to educate their children. They have tractors, but they are still waiting. The Cabinet Secretary seemed unwilling to even listen to us when we went to visit him in his Office."},{"id":1549876,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549876/?format=json","text_counter":155,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Narok North, JP","speaker_title":"Hon. Agnes Mantaine","speaker":{"id":420,"legal_name":"Richard Moitalel ole Kenta","slug":"richard-moitalel-ole-kenta"},"content":"We also have a share in this Government. We have a right to determine what should happen to us. The response is wrong. Only two lorries of wheat have been bought. The rest of the wheat is still in the NCPB stores, which are not very good. That wheat is already rotting. We took the issue to the Cabinet Secretary and we agreed that the Government would buy the wheat within two weeks. I support the Member who has requested for this Statement."},{"id":1549877,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549877/?format=json","text_counter":156,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Hon. Caroli Omondi spoke off-record)"},{"id":1549878,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549878/?format=json","text_counter":157,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Omboko Milemba","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":{"id":13328,"legal_name":"Jeremiah Omboko Milemba","slug":"jeremiah-omboko-milemba"},"content":" What is it, Hon. Member? Do you want to contribute on the same?"},{"id":1549879,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549879/?format=json","text_counter":158,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Suba South, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Caroli Omondi","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I just want to add one or two points to this important issue affecting wheat farmers not just in Narok, but also the rest of the country. I also want to briefly talk about the sugar sector. There is no off-take of home-grown wheat in Kenya because there was massive importation of wheat. There are records. We should have been given the records of all the wheat that was imported through the Port of Mombasa. That is why farmers in Narok are unable to sell their crop. They will not be able to salvage the wheat crop because there are no storage facilities. Due to the high moisture content, aflatoxins will form, and yet somebody somewhere is importing grains and sugar when prices in the international markets are low, flooding them in Kenya, and leaving our farmers with nowhere to sell their crops."},{"id":1549880,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549880/?format=json","text_counter":159,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Suba South, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Caroli Omondi","speaker":null,"content":"I agree with my sisters from Narok. The answer is unsatisfactory. The House should be informed about how much wheat has been imported into the Republic of Kenya through the Port of Mombasa in the last 12 months. The Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), and the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) should give us their records. We know the reasons. They should not think that we do not know. Something similar is happening in the sugar sector. We know. They should give us those records as they respond to our requests."},{"id":1549881,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549881/?format=json","text_counter":160,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Omboko Milemba","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":{"id":13328,"legal_name":"Jeremiah Omboko Milemba","slug":"jeremiah-omboko-milemba"},"content":" We shall rest the matter there. However, that was a very serious and emotive issue. Leader of the Majority Party, I want you to call the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development and ask him to deal specifically with wheat farming in Narok and other cereals about which it is being claimed that there were huge importations. The President subsidised fertilisers and that is why we are where we are. Please, put the Cabinet Secretary on notice so that he comes to deal with that matter. We cannot allow farmers in Narok and other parts of the country to suffer, while we do not have clear answers about what is happening."}]}