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    "id": 1083623,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support this timely Bill and thank Hon. Wamunyinyi for bringing it. Indeed, he is a true party leader who acts and does not lament in funerals like some other party leaders we know. As it has been said by my colleagues, this is a very important Bill because it is reinstating the Sugar Act which was there previously. As you know, we came up with the Crops Act, 2013, and the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA), where sugar management is delegated to a directorate just like tea and coffee. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, AFA is a failed experiment because some of the problems we have in the sugar industry and even in the tea and coffee sectors are as a result of the merger that was done. Farmers have really suffered in terms of non-payment or late payment for their produce, increase in the cost of production, declining land acreage and many other challenges that Hon. Wamunyinyi alluded to. So, this is very timely and as leaders who come from regions that produce sugar, we are in full support of this initiative and we will support it. I have gone through the Report of the Committee and I also want to thank the Committee for their very good input into this. They have made some very good recommendations and I am sure that a few areas in this Bill will be panel beaten at the Committee of the whole House stage, so that we can make it an even better piece of legislation."
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