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    "id": 1076246,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1076246/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kanduyi, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 291,
        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
        "slug": "athanas-wamunyinyi"
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, farmers are suffering because of bad policies and mismanagement of departments and directorates. Key crops like coffee, tea and sugar have not been run properly. We have barons and cartels in the sugar sector. These are importers who have brought down the sugar industry. Coffee brokers almost brought down the coffee sector. There is mismanagement in the tea industry. We must streamline the affairs of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation to support what the Ministry is doing. I had opportunity to speak to the Cabinet Secretary about farmers of Nzoia Sugar Company who are owed to the tune of Kshs900 million. Cane was harvested, crushed and milled, and sugar was sold, but farmers have not been paid. A sum of Kshs900 million for ordinary farmers is a lot of debt. We have problems of mismanagement and corruption presided over by Government officers. I am aware that the Managing Director of Nzoia Sugar Company has been sacked today and I commend the Cabinet Secretary for doing so. However, he has to put in place a board to ensure that the company is run well and farmers are paid their dues. Workers have not been paid. They should be paid. Their salary is in arrears."
}