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    "id": 1025644,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui West, WDM – K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Edith Nyenze",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support the Committee for its deliberations on the Report. Agriculture is one of the items which highly contributes to our economy. The Government should take it seriously especially the sugar industry. It is really wanting to see that even at this time, we are still importing sugar while we have very good farms, especially in western Kenya, which produce sugar. I support the Committee. I used to work in the pensions industry. I happened to visit the Sony, Muhoroni, Chemelil and Mumias sugar companies. They were in a very pathetic state. It was very bad for the employees. The factories were run down. The employees were nowhere in the factories. After contributing to their pension, it was not being remitted for them to get something even when they were laid off. That is a very fertile land, especially for growing sugarcane. As a Government, we have not been serious enough to wake this sleeping giant which can contribute so much to our economy. I also found that farmers were not being paid for their deliveries. Since the farmers were not being paid for their deliveries, it is good to write off the loans to the farmers. We should check which loans they had taken and find out how much they are owed so that it cancels out and the companies should pay. I support the Committee. It is my hope that in future, the reports on the audited accounts will be interrogated and worked on in time. Many times we get the report but it is not implemented. We should ensure that the reports are implemented accordingly. With that, I support the Report."
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