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    "id": 807466,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Uriri, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mark Nyamiti",
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        "legal_name": "Mark Ogolla Nyamita",
        "slug": "mark-ogolla-nyamita"
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    "content": "the port. I have listened to the Leader of the Majority Party who says that small traders cannot be able to deal with this sugar. We also know that there are people who are given licences, but the small traders in this country are the owners of the licences. Because of connections to power, they are able to secure the licences and give them to small traders to bring in sugar. We also know that it is illegal to be in position of something that has been stolen or is contraband. Being in possession of contraband goods is a criminal offence. When they arrest the small traders, they should tell us exactly where they are. Listening to the list of companies that have been listed here like Sukari Industries, I want to say and it is on record, that the SONY Sugar Factory has suffered a loss of close to Kshs1.2 billion out of sugarcane poaching because of Sukari Industries. We have gone for meetings with the Privatisation Commission, not once, not twice. In fact, in the last one, we got invitations as Members of Parliament from the sugar belt and we were told to go on a Tuesday the following week. When we arrived in Kisumu on that Tuesday, we found that the meeting had happened on Monday. They had even issued a Press conference insinuating that we were part of that meeting. They came to SONY Sugar and we gave our views in public participation. To date, they are quiet. We are asking the Government to do what it needs to do because people are suffering. As of now, Sukari Industries, having been listed as someone who neighbours them. In fact, this weekend I am going home and we are going to erect a barrier and they will not come close to our constituency to collect sugarcane."
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