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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Makilap",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I like the fashion of the people from the sugarcane-growing areas. I am a pastoralist. I witnessed presentations from Kenyans who grow sugarcane. What has been going on in the sugar industry now is banditry. The National Treasury and this Government's objective is to make sugarcane growing a profitable venture for Kenyans. This Report is meant to bring people out of poverty. The five sugar factories owned by the Government have continued to make a lot of losses for a long time. I want Members to listen to this background because it was a presentation. We asked why there were arrears of people who supplied sugar to the factories. The sugarcane has been milled, the sugar sold, and the farmers are not getting the money. We were shocked by the answers because farmers had brought the sugarcane, the sugar had been sold, and the farmers did not have their money. The answer we were given was shocking. We were told that the people who live in the growing sugar areas must know that the five sugar factories have been captured. They go and look for brokers and cartels to bring money in advance to the factory in the name of helping them take care of their problems, and then they sell the sugar to them at a cheap price. So, when they sell the sugar cheaply, they cannot pay the farmers who brought the 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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