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    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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        "legal_name": "Julius Kipbiwot Melly",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Petition by Hon. Onyango Oyoo. I come from the same region. The kind of treatment that Kibos Sugar and Allied Industries is meting out to our people, especially the people from my constituency of Tinderet and Muhoroni, is very appalling. Workers are not allowed to form unions. If they try to do so, they can be summarily dismissed. A number of them are supposed to toe the line of the cartels that have been given the right to recruit and dismiss at will. Hon. Speaker, the Kibos Sugar and Allied Industries has done a lot of evil things even to the Kibos School for the Blind. When I was the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research I visited there. Once you are there, you realise the deplorable state that the children of Kibos School for the Blind are in. In fact, all those who work within the industry are supposed to ensure that even the few Asians who work there have the skills and understanding of the factory operations because they are wanting, but they get better pay than the locals. Just like the Hon. Members have just said, the giant is actually a serious problem. When their issues are tabled in this House, they do not see the light of the day. I have seen a number of them. We have the issue of the Kibos School for the Blind who have gone to court. The Ministry of Environment and Forestry has just taken us around and there is nothing which has gone through. We have even had more issues. In Miwani, they have tried to acquire public land through the backdoor. That is bad. So, it is time for this House to assert itself and make sure that our people, whom we represent, are heard. We do not represent the rich and the powerful. We represent the locals: the people whose rights have been trampled upon by this giant and big companies. I beg to support."
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