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    "id": 807400,
    "url": "http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/807400/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana Central, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Nakara",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2926,
        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let us fight this menace with all our effort, without discrimination, intimidation and without mentioning names of people. Let us fight this menace as one body and unit. The crisis in this industry is alarming. Some people have stopped taking tea with sugar. The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government should come out with clarification if it is true that some of the sugar has mercury. It has actually spoilt the market of this product called sugar. Some of this sugar has mercury and has spoilt the sugar market. Let us arrest the people engaging in the business of importing this sugar into the country. If we will not arrest these people, we will mention their names and yet they are there. Let us not make a lot of noise and chest-thump and do something to save this country from the problem we have now. Let us give farmers leadership in this industry. Some of the people who are involved in the leadership of this industry are not farmers. The wearer of the shoe is the one who knows where it pinches. Let us see how we can bring in the farmers themselves. If you have engaged in sugar farming, then you must be involved in the leadership. When we allow somebody to lead the farmers who does not even have a single farm and is not engaged in the business of sugar, he will use it to import sugar into the country. Let us table the list of these people in this House so that we can directly shame those who are killing our people rather than talking about this or that region. This problem is all over. It was discovered in Kisii, Murang’a and Ukambani. It is not only in the Rift Valley. If you say it is in the Rift Valley and then you have a picture of somebody who is influential in that area, we should not do that. We should take this issue all over the country. Finally, we have immigration officers along our borders. What are they doing? Those are the people who make sure that importers of illegal sugar are arrested before they come into the country. We must change that group including the Cabinet Secretary and the Principal Secretary (PS) so that we can have new people there."
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