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    "id": 1282263,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1282263/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker and Hon. Wangwe for your indulgence in giving me a minute. I specifically requested to speak on this matter because last week the substantive Speaker of this House ruled, through a Communication from the Chair, that the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, jointly with the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, shall look for measures to be put in place to help the sugar sector. Sugar companies owe Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Ksh65.78 billion in interests and penalties. The sugar companies also owe the Government of Kenya Ksh50.14 billion. As we think about helping the sugar sector, if the issues of the interests and penalties owed to KRA, and the money that has been advanced to these companies by the Government of Kenya, cumulatively totaling to Ksh65 billion, are not addressed, the sector will not work. As I wind up to give a chance to other Members to comment on this matter, I note that research is very important. We cannot continue to grow the same sugarcane varieties that were grown by our ancestors during the colonial times and expect different results. Therefore, research must be undertaken to develop better sugarcane varieties. With those remarks, I beg to support and thank Hon. Wangwe for being consistent in spearheading the needs of his people."
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