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    "id": 1284840,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1284840/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Makilap",
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    "content": "sugarcane. Farmers in western Kenya have suffered for a long time because of the capture of the state-owned factories. I want to thank this Committee because when the National Treasury gave us penalties, arrears, and principal interest of Ksh50 billion and when we called upon the KRA to bring their data and they brought a figure of Ksh16 billion, our Committee brought forward a write-off. The figure from KRA was Ksh16 billion; you can imagine the difference! This was when we realised that, again, there was no safety net for employees of the sugar factories. We proposed, therefore, that in the write-off, we pay the employees so that whoever is going to lease these lands will start from a clean slate, will not be antagonized, and will run a clean business that will bring money to the farmers. The end product is that people in the lower cadre should benefit from sugar-growing areas and make money from this business. To ensure that the land is not lost, we said that this lease programme needs to be understood by the farmers in those areas so that the land will revert to the people living in those particular areas after the expiry of the lease, which is a good thing other than privatisation which would have the whole land taken. Lastly, there is a need for research on growing of sugar. I went around and realised that most of the sugarcane in those areas is more like Napier grass."
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