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    "speaker_name": "Mumias East, DAP-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Salasya",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, you caught me off- guard, but let me try and see what I will say. I have realised that there are many things that are happening in this House. Let me begin by thanking the people of Mumias Constituency and, more so, to the women, for giving me this opportunity. They trusted and gave me their votes without me giving them anything. I will, therefore, serve them in full capacity. Hon. Deputy Speaker, there is the issue of monos in this House. The first-time Members are not given opportunity to address the House. In situations where there is a good Motion to contribute to, we are told to wait a bit, and that we cannot comment. It is unfair for us first- time Members. Going forward, we seek your intervention so that we can be given time to make our contributions. Secondly, we have committees in the House. His Excellency the President last week gave out his Speech. He talked about our economy and how we can revive it. We have the Public Investment Committee (PIC), and many Members are salivating to be members. My request is that the Members who have previously served in PIC but have not provided leadership in terms of oversight should not be given another opportunity to serve in the said Committee, so that we can put there the right people who can provide oversight. We have seen many parastatals in this country, like Nzoia Sugar Company and others that are not performing very well and yet, this House should be providing oversight to enable them do their job well. The President talked about electricity, on which I fully support. The cost of doing business in this country is very high. It is important, therefore, that we come up with ways of reducing the cost of electricity. This can be done by allowing other suppliers to operate in the sector so that it is not only Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) that produces electricity in this country. We must do away with monopoly. Kenya Power and Lighting Company is also not doing so well and we need to legislate on it. I want to congratulate the President for touching on the agriculture sector. This is an area where we need to do value addition because we import most things. That has really weakened the Kenyan Shilling. We need to do a lot of research on how to improve the lives of Kenyans by reducing the cost of living. Another issue I would like to address is that of Mumias Sugar Company. It is one of the issues that have brought me to this House because I have been fighting for its revival. The sugar industry has been taken over by cartels in this country. You will find one person with 60 companies and yet, the Government industries are not performing very well. I request this House to push forward so that we can pass the Sugar Bill. There is this “animal” called Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA), which must be disbanded. Kenya is an agricultural 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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