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    "id": 1086884,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1086884/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Malava, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Moses Injendi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Malulu Injendi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill and thank Hon. Wamunyinyi for bringing it. My constituency hosts two private companies. When the Sugar Act died in 2013, we had a lot of problems in terms of managing sugar-cane farming in Kakamega County. I have noticed some two missing elements in this Bill. The purpose of this Bill is to reinstate the Sugar Act which was repealed in 2013 and restore the Kenya Sugar Board with its roles and functions. However, when I look at this, one of the two functions is missing from the constitution of Kenya Sugar Board. There is the issue of zoning. Currently, the farmers, for example, in Malava, are suffering because the current factories especially the West Kenya Sugar Factory is ferrying sugar-cane from far away in Kakamega County, leaving the sugar-cane for the local farmers staying longer in the farms. I would request the owner of this Bill, Wamunyinyi, to consider this because we are talking of reinstating the Sugar Act that was there before. I recall the Task Force that went round under the chairmanship of Governor Oparanya. In all the hearings, farmers were talking of…"
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