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    "id": 1156228,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "I hope that when we set up such a Board, we will give it sufficient powers. I have seen the powers that have been granted to them. We need to make a demand on everybody, including those who have milling plants that are running. On a yearly target basis, we give them the incentive to grow various nucleases and ensure that their farmers develop their cane and increase it and see their contribution. Otherwise, if you do not make that demand upon them, we will have the situation that Sen. Shiyonga has describing where people run mills for packaging sugar that has been manufactured elsewhere and not locally. Madam Temporary Speaker, we must demand from each of our millers that they work hand in hand with their outgrowers. This is because ours is a small-scale holder economy. We cannot be like Uganda, Sudan, Brazil and the rest of the countries. Yes, that option is available. I am a representative of people here courtesy of the many cane farmers of Kericho County. While I speak and make laws for them, I am concerned about the large-scale farmers. I wish them well. However, my primary concern is the people that I represent. That is what I expect and demand of this sugar board. There are responsibilities and functions that have been assigned to the county government as well. There is this provision that we keep on putting in in many of these such laws, that is issuance of sugarcane nursery certificates. Sometimes, some of these legislations are nonsensical if you may ask me. An over enthusiastic county government official might find some young boys trying to put together a nursery and arrest them because they need a certification from the county government. I see this happening a lot in the tea sector. We know for a fact that if I wanted to buy sugarcane seedlings which are proper, tested and verified by the various research agencies that we have in the country, I know where to buy. Madam Temporary Speaker, many of these young people are not doing it because they do not like to observe regulations or things like that. It is because of the economic situation. Therefore, as a House, we should not sanction and force down people to observe certain practises which are way above their reach. I agree with the composition of the Board. I have read Part Three of the Bill. Clause 18 is about the various licencing regulations. That is part of what I was describing early. On what is expected and demanded of a miller, let them make a declaration. The beauty is that, Hon. Senators may change in this House, but this House will remain. I prayer for myself and those who want to come back like, my good friend, from Nyamira County, Sen. Omogeni. I wish him well and hope that God grants us the chance. If we do not conclude this business during this term, one of the things that we must do is place a demand on each milling factory to declare how much sugar they have imported into the country in comparison with how much they have milled from outgrowers. So that we determine and see which are these mills that exist only to package sugar that is being developed by others outside the country. I challenge that we need to put that requirement in this Bill. If we do not succeed because of time and many challenges, next term, God willing and God granting us a chance, this is something that we must do if we want this sector thrive. I can see that time is rushing and there is so much to say about this particular Bill, but of interest is the financial provision. When people go for campaign rallies in Western"
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