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    "id": 1086948,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1086948/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. First of all, I must applaud Hon. Wamunyinyi. I rise to support this Bill. One, this Bill demonstrates the folly of trying to put many industries together like we tried with the other Act. We have to go back. This Bill recognises the appalling state of the sugar industries. The farmers are poor. The sugar-cane in some places is rotting in the field. Some is being burnt so that it can be cut. The millers that we know are all dead and, if they are working, they are doing so below capacity. The cost of production of cane is high because of cartels. Sugar is being imported through institutions that are supposed to protect it. This Bill looks at all that. It creates the infrastructure that you need. It creates the sugar board which actually will look at the licensing, registration and control of importation of sugar. It then sets the sugar levy and so, we get money from those who import sugar and with that, we put it in the Sugar Development Fund which is going to support the millers and their ideas. Then it brings an arbitration process that actually brings in the Judiciary. There is a bit of independence in that law. It looks at the agreements through the miller, outgrowers and farmers. All that is taken care of. It even puts in a sugar pricing committee of the sugar board comprising of sugar board and Kenya sugar manufacturers. So, nobody is left out. No aspect that we need to look into has been left out. I support this Bill."
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