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    "id": 1282219,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1282219/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I am already brief. I am quite short. Sugar is not just a product that is put on our tables. It is a political product. It has always been all over the world. There are only two kinds of barons in the world. There are sugar barons, who are the most powerful, and drug barons. Sugar is not just sugar. I thank Hon. Wangwe for taking his time to work on the Bill. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I have an issue with the Bill in totality, and not just in terms of some clauses. We have neglected sugar production for too long such that people who do not even produce sugar have a say in its production. I did not hear the voices of farmers and the people who depend on sugar in the Bill because we have made sugar management an elite exercise. I will propose amendments at the right time. To correctly deal with sugar, we must allow farmers to own sugar factories. That is the only way to go about this business. If we do not, Indians and some wazungu will own the sugar factories and we will hope that we get a result, which will not happen. Let us convert the Mumias Sugar Company into a shareholding company to be owned by farmers to deal in sugarcane. The Sony Sugar Company, the Miwani Sugar Company and the Kwale International Sugar Company should be owned by farmers who produce sugarcane, so that nobody comes between them and their money. Otherwise, we can 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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