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    "id": 1284844,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Muhoroni, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. James K'oyoo",
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    "content": " The Report here will be best cured by the impending Sugar Bill that Hon. Wangwe has tabled. I want to talk about the case of Miwani Sugar Company because that is my ancestral land. As Hon. Caroli said, Miwani Sugar Company is the oldest company, and the land on which the raw materials are grown was donated by the locals I represent in Parliament. Sometime in 2008, somebody purportedly bought that land at an auction. Serious investigation was mounted when PLO Lumumba was the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) Chairperson. It came out from the Report that there was never an auction, no lands board, no money paid. Up to now, you cannot be shown that so many millions of shillings were paid from this point to this point in a bank or via this cheque, but we continue to hear that the land is being transferred to some locals. Hon. Speaker, you are a serious lawyer. In law, there is a word called ''precedence'', and one has been set in dealing with the case of Mumias Sugar Company. I am pleading that the Government should move and deal with the case of Miwani faster than Mumias because this is stark fraudulence. There is no proof that land was bought, and this case had been handled up to the Court of Appeal by Justice Mwera when the Court of Appeal was the land's highest court. How did an environmental land court come here to review and reverse the judgment that the Court of Appeal gave in 2008? We are appealing that the best way to cure these ills is for the Government to use the same style done with Mumias. On behalf of my constituents, I appeal that that be done immediately. I plead with my colleagues that when this Sugar Bill is Tabled here…"
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