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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wangwe",
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. It is about this Petition. First of all, I want to thank Hon. Amina for bringing out the facts as they are on the ground. In the recent past, there have been many issues touching on production of sugar. What has come out clearly and the truth on the ground is lack of regulations. The fact that Hon. Amina has brought out to the Departmental Committee of Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives is what I want to emphasize, that we have regulations brought to this House, to set the parameters between new factories and the existing factories. If you look at the reasons for poaching of sugarcane from Mumias Sugar Company, you will find that new factories are coming up but they do not have nuclear estates. They do not have land to produce enough cane to crush. What happens is that they end up crisscrossing into the existing farms. As a result, there are fights between new factories and the old factories. Let us have regulations being brought to this House so that sugar factories can run in the same manner tea factories are running, but if we proceed in the manner we are doing in connection to sugarcane production, definitely we are not going anywhere. I will insist that we bring regulations to this House that will state that a 20 to 40-kilometre radius should be observed when a new sugar factory is being established. Lastly, I would like to say that the investors should also come out clearly, should not abuse the right of investment, use the locals and take advantage of them not being informed to bring misleading petitions to us, and yet their interest is all about business. There are very many factories that are coming up not because they are interested in farming but because they want to use the locals to abuse the investment of farmers. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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