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    "id": 1033822,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1033822/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, beyond the Committee, where this matter is directed to, I would request the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock to look at how the people who have invested in the sugar sector are not only treating the employees, but also the farmers. Growing sugarcane takes about two years. You plant your crop, you wait for two years and then later, you discover that your cane is not going to be harvested. It is so frustrating and it is killing the local economy of this region. So, the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock needs to look at this issue in the sugar sector in totality as we embrace the recently introduced reforms by the Cabinet Secretary. Finally, the Council of Governors (CoG) and the Senate need to discuss and involve the stakeholders. Some of the decisions they take hurt the very farmers who are supposed to benefit. Farmers are complaining that they are in agreement with the Cabinet Secretary yet the CoG from nowhere is opposing the very reforms that the sugarcane farmers are supporting. Sometimes leaders speak for themselves instead of speaking for the electorate. I thank you."
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