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    "id": 1083615,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mumias East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Benjamin Washiali",
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        "legal_name": "Benjamin Jomo Washiali",
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    "content": "would manage this industry. Moreover, you cannot develop this sector if you do not have regulations. Recently, some regulations were gazetted. Looking at them, honestly speaking, they are just there to please some individuals instead of supporting the farmers. Therefore, I wanted the sponsor of this Bill - and if he does not do it I will do it - during the Third Reading, to introduce a clause asking the Cabinet Secretary to formulate regulations. We must give him time limit. He must put regulations that would manage this industry. We cannot have an industry that is not regulated. Indeed, that is why we have always gone wrong. Therefore, I just want to request, again, that the regulations must be put in place. I am very hopeful that Members will agree with us that the sugar sub-sector should manage itself, so that once this Bill is enacted, then we must give the CS six months, at most, to come up with regulations in line with the Act. Because other Members want to contribute, let me say something that may not necessarily be in this Bill. I want to request - just like the Chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Livestock - that as we reinstate this Act, we also need to reinstate the Act that brought about the research aspect of the sugar sub-sector. It was a key component of the sugar sub-sector as opposed to the current KALRO. I have been looking at the composition of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, and it is unfortunate because I do not know what happened to Hon. Wangwe since I had put him as the Vice-Chair when I was the Whip. But somehow, when I was checking the Membership of the Committee, I did not see any Member from the sugar growing sector. Going forward, so that the sugar matters are properly handled and tackled in Parliament and Committee level, I am requesting that we approach the Speaker and the leadership of the both sides of the House to get two or three Members from the sugar growing zones to help us articulate the sugar issues. I know eventually this Bill will end up in the Senate and that is where we have agents of sugar barons. I can see it dying there just because of the sugar barons."
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