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"speaker_name": "Tigania West, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. John Mutunga",
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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chair. I am a member of the Committee and I want to reflect on the past year when we discussed matters about sugar and the kind of experience we went through. There are different types of sugar depending on the purpose or the user of that particular sugar when it lands in this country. Before importation, there must be pre-export and pre-import inspection on the other side. We must be satisfied that the sugar meets the required conditions of this country. Secondly, bulk importation and bagging are two issues we need to be very careful about when we legislate. Bulk importation can bring sugar to the port of entry without any contamination. I want to repeat that Chair. Internationally approved vessels for transportation of sugar have the capacity to land sugar in Mombasa or whatever port of entry without any form of contamination. If we block that out, we will be interfering with the international trading system and we shall also make sugar very costly. If you do bagging at the port of export and on the other side, at the source, then you bring in a lot of other issues in terms of increasing the handling aspect of it. That is an issue we need to consider. The other issue is that it is okay the way the clause is worded in terms of declaring evidence. However, evidence is not given by those individuals; it is given by the Government. Somebody has spoken to the fact that the authority must be monitoring. One of the functions of the authority is to monitor the sugar supply chain so that we are sure that the supplies management meets the records that can probably inform importation. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chair. 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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