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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": "I have heard Hon. Washiali talk about regulations. That is where the devil is. We make laws in this House and leave substantial part of the law making in form of regulations to other people who frustrate the implementation of the laws that we make here. So, I would want to support what my colleague, Hon Washiali, has said that we need to have a timeframe for the formulation and gazettement of regulations. I am sure that is something that we will deal with at the Committee of the whole House stage. I will move to the importation of sugar. Import of sugar has been one of the major challenges in the sugar sector and I want to say that although the Bill is recommending other safeguard measures, I wish it would be very explicit on the issue of importation of sugar, so that we only import the deficit. Importers should be made to report on their stocks, sales and any other critical information. The challenge we have is that we flood the market with a lot of sugar which basically means that the farmer, who takes his cane to the factory, does not get the returns he expects. This Bill has also provided for the right of growers. I have read somewhere in the Report where some of the stakeholders are questioning why we should give 51 per cent shareholding to the farmers. We have failed in the sugar industry because we have not listened to the farmer and the farmer is the most important person. The farmer is the source of the raw material. We have a problem at the Mumias Sugar Company because we disregarded the farmer. When the Company was privatised, farmers were given about 20 per cent. The rest of the shareholding was given to other people. That is why we ended up with problems that we now have in Mumias Sugar Company. We have other issues like the Sugar Development Levy. I agree with the position taken by the Committee that there is need to increase the levy for imported sugar, the CIS value of the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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