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"speaker_name": "Muhoroni, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. James K’oyoo",
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"content": "Sugar Company, you must tell us because we donated land a long time ago for the purpose of the sugar milling industry. If you are no longer going to build a sugar industry or you want it to change hands, the public who donated the land must be told the position of their land. They must either be paid or given shares equal to the value of their land. I want to revisit the elephant in the room. My friend and Leader of the Minority Party ably touched a live wire here, which is the Miwani Sugar Company. It was the first company that was started in this country. It was followed by Ramisi Sugar Factory in Mombasa. Some time during the Nyayo regime, the owners of Miwani Sugar Factory fled the country purportedly because they feared being killed. We hear that some powerful people who had vested interest in the sugar industry then blackmailed them by purporting that they were involved in the financing of the coup attempt in 1982. So, they were supposed to be arraigned in court. The powerful cartel in the Government then pumped fear in those people, and they eventually fled the country. Later on, the company, miraculously, changed hands and one Ketan Somaia purportedly bought the farm and became the new owner. The Government appointed one receiver manager after another to run public sugar mills in the country. The last receiver manager of Miwani Sugar Mills is now the proprietor of Kibos Sugar Company. In miraculous circumstances, while he was here, some companies purportedly made some supplies to Miwani Sugar Company but they were not paid. When this matter came up, PLO Lumumba was still at the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). He launched serious investigations. These people could not be traced either in India or Kenya. They were hiding. Prof. Lumumba ordered their arrests, and some arrests were made. People were charged. Investigations were done. They found that everything about this case was fictitious. People went up to the Court of Appeal, which was the highest court of the land then. The Court of Appeal ruled that the land belonged to the public. The Kenya Sugar Board was made the debenture holder, on behalf of the public. How then did a lower court, which was supposed to arbitrate on land issues, overrule the Court of Appeal judgement that was made by Justice Mwera in Kenya? You want us to believe that, that is the only valid judgement on that matter, and that we should forgo the judgement that was made by the Court of Appeal, which was the highest court of the land then. The Supreme Court had not been created then. The judgement by the tribunal was not challenged. Hon. Temporary Speaker, they want us to believe that a case which was adjourned by a lower court judge who was, until the other day, a drunkard here in town, was final. We know the people who are using them. We want to warn them that my ancestors, the people of Sindo, Kabar and Kamagaga donated that land. My friend, Hon. Wandayi, if you have a friend you want to donate that land to, you have your ancestral land in Ugenya. Go ahead and donate it. Do not try this land. We are going to beat you. We are going to defeat you. We are going to do everything to make sure that the ownership of that land is not transferred to anybody, and that is the case. We will not allow it. We will not be cowed. To the very best interest of those people, every time we approach an election, we hear of allegations of that land changing hands from here to there or wanting to create this and that. We are aware of all this. We are seeing through all those things. We know who are behind all these things. We have since sensitised our people. Recently, a very able receiver manager who has been running the place came. They tried to use a cabal of corrupt Asians who were trying to take over Miwani. War came and their people were thrown out. Later on, a court of law was used to prosecute the receiver manager for having beaten his employees and, because these people are high handed, they arrested this man in a terrible way. He was driven overnight to Nairobi to be charged so as to demonstrate how powerful they were..."
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