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    "id": 1284849,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1284849/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Memorandum from the National Treasury. It is time we thought about reforming our sugar mills and the sugar sector generally because looking even at our country's data, we need to do much more to spur sugar production. We should look inward at our supply chain even though it will go a long way to bridging the gaps between our exports and imports. Any effort we put towards sugar production, like in any other agricultural commodity, we do import substitution on the other side. Generally, this is very good for our economy. Holistically, the issue of having a lean government is one that we must keep on checking as a House. I say so because the Government must do the least in terms of the commercial sector. The Government should be doing what a government should be doing. That is enabling other industries and also checking on them. I am an ardent supporter of the fact that we need to reduce all government-owned entities from the current number, which is over 500. We leave only that which the Government should do. The Government should be lean because when we have a small government, we have big people, figuratively speaking. We must go beyond sugar in what we are doing in terms of leasing. We must go into the commercial sector. There is no reason, for example, why the Government of Kenya should own a bank."
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