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    "id": 1282184,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to be very brief. I had a chance to go through this Bill in detail. Let me start by saying that I was in this House with a few of my colleagues, like Hon David Ochieng’, Hon. K’Oyoo and Hon. Wangwe, the initiator of this Bill, when the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) was created. The AFA Act was enacted during the 11th Parliament. I was privileged to have belonged to the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, which was initially chaired by my good friend, the current Deputy Governor of Kakamega County, Hon. Ayub Savula. Later on, we sacked him. He became the first Member to be removed as chairperson of a committee of that Parliament. After a few months, we replaced him with Hon. Noor Hassan of Mandera. Hon. Temporary Speaker, with the benefit of hindsight, I can say that it was a mistake to have lumped together very many key agriculture sub-sectors, sugar included, under the AFA Act. In so doing, we lost focus and this critical sector lost the attention it deserves. This is because the AFA Act killed the Kenya Sugar Board, as it was then known, and introduced a mere Sugar Directorate under AFA. Since the enactment of that Act to-date, we have only seen the sugar sector going under. There is nothing to write home about the era of the Sugar Directorate under the AFA framework. 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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