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    "id": 806430,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Once again, I stand here today to add my voice on this issue of sugar. Sugar is a commodity that is classified as food and it finds itself in all the formulations in drugs and all forms of drinks. It is not worrying if this sugar is properly and normally certified processed food. It becomes a worry when its processing is adulterated and deficient in the processing ingredients. Therefore, in the process of generating it, it creates - what I said yesterday – intermediary products through the process. If this sugar is adulterated with mercury during the processing, it produces mercury chloride which is oduorless, colourless and unsuspecting yet it is a killer that causes cancer. We must, therefore, ask ourselves whether the Government and the people of Kenya are being exposed to the forms of cancer we are seeing in abundance in this country to that extent. In addition to this, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the importation of sugar has taken over the entire amount of sugar that we consume in this country. What happened to the farmer who produced this sugar through the Sugarcane Production Programme? You have already destroyed that pillar. You destroyed it, first of all, by this adulterated and toxic sugar, which is finding its way to the market. You also destroy that farmer economically by rendering his cane unserviceable and unavailable to the factories. This is because these factories are making bigger profits out of the importation of the sugar coming to this country.You are, therefore, killing a Kenyan in two ways; you are suffocating a Kenyan economically and food wise too.There is, therefore, no Kenyan left to come and even vote for you at the end of this event. The moral question that the Senate must ask itself --- The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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