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    "id": 1185887,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to also support the Statement by my neighbor and friend, Sen. (Prof.) Tom Ojienda, SC, the Senator for Kisumu, to say that this particular Statement is timely. As you may be aware, and I congratulate my neighbour and friend, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, Mumias Sugar Company is now doing some minimal production. I thank him for supporting that effort. As one of the leaders in the region, I also support and encourage other leaders to support that initiative, in order to bring back Mumias Sugar Company to full scale production of sugar so that our farmers can benefit. However, these kind of assignments have been done in this House and also in the National Assembly. Many reports have been produced with good ideas but nothing is happening. What we lack in this country, when it comes to matters sugarcane, is the political goodwill of reengineering the sugarcane business. This is not there because some of the policy makers are the ones who import sugar since it is profitable. They do not want the industry to thrive because they will lose business. We want to see some serious action by the Kenya Kwanza Government. They should stop sugar barons from importing sugar, so that we can revive our sugar industry. We cannot revive our sugar industry if we continue allowing sugar barons to import sugar. Some of them even pretend they produce sugar when they are simply importing, packaging and selling it to Kenyans. As a leader from the Western region, I fully support the initiative to bring back Mumias Sugar Company to life. I encourage many other people to do what Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale did last weekend, by going to Mumias Sugar Company to inspect what is being done there and supporting it. We expect the support of President William Ruto. One of the things he promised in the Kenya Kwanza Coalition Pact was full revival of Mumias Sugar Company. I thank you."
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