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    "id": 807434,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Muhoroni, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. James Oyoo",
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for considering me. First, I want to make a small correction that when I stood on a point of order, I had wanted to acquaint my good friend, Hon. Duale, with information that on top of the names that he put to us, there is also an important name called Holbud Limited. Holbud Limited brought in sugar on behalf of South Nyanza Company to the tune of 100,000 metric tonnes and did not pay duty. The sugar was even brought in after the duty exemption window had been closed. So, on top of the list he gave, I want him to check Holbud Limited. It is the same maize company that brought differences between the former Prime Minister and Hon. Ruto. It also brought in fertiliser and sugar the other time. So, keep it among the companies to be investigated. This Motion came at a good time because today we had an engagement between the Nandi and the Luo elders in Nakuru. What came out in summary is that our people are not really fighting, it is economic hopelessness that has pitied them against each other. The economic hopelessness in our borderline has been created by this fraud on very hardworking sugarcane farmers who until the other day were able to pay all their bills in good time. The sugar fraud is being done at a very high level. I was called to Citizen Television in 2015 during the anti-corruption day and they asked me my views. I told them that sugar is not a shirt that I can go abroad and bring Hon. Duale one because he is my good friend. Sugar must be imported and there are documents. It comes in The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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