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    "id": 1014155,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1014155/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Awendo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Owino",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13292,
        "legal_name": "John Walter Owino",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to ask Question No.191/2020 directed to the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. (i) Could the Cabinet Secretary explain the Government’s rationale and basis for the recent decision to lease out the sugar industry to private investors? (ii) What benchmarks for performance have been laid out in the lease-based approach in a bid to avoid the possibility of mismanagement and corruption? (iii) Could the Cabinet Secretary provide the implementation status of Sessional Paper of 1988 regarding guarantee of loans that had been advanced to fund expansion and rehabilitation of Nzoia Sugar Company, and other sugar firms in the country? (iv) What measures is the Ministry putting in place to avert a repeat of past malpractices and mismanagement activities involving sugar companies that made cane farmers dependent on heavily-indebted sugar companies as their only cane selling outlets?"
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