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    "id": 1083634,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1083634/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kakamega CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Elsie Muhanda",
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        "legal_name": "Elsie Busihile Muhanda",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to, at least, add my voice to this Bill which is very key. We know that every household in Kenya uses sugar. This is a very important Bill. First of all, I want to add my voice to the composition of the board. I wish to enrich the composition by stating that the Bill does provide that there should be people of special groups. In Part II, Clause 5, the composition should include the youth, women and people with special needs. I support Clause 30 of the Bill which states that sugar growers will have 51 per cent shareholding of privatised sugar factories. This is very important because looking at the sugar industry, with emphasis on the western region, where I come from, farmers have no voice and are deeply frustrated. If you go to Kakamega, many farmers have sugarcane, but it is overgrown. It cannot be cut because the millers dictate when to take the sugarcane. You find that farmers are affected and cannot pay their bank loans. Those same farmers cannot even pay school fees for their children. You find that the poverty level has gone up because of the dictatorship of the millers that choose when to pick cane from the sugar growers. I support the Bill as it will fight for Awinja and Wanjiku, so that Wanjiku’s voice is heard in the Constitution. Thank you for giving me more time next time to continue contributing to the Bill."
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