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    "id": 1338612,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1338612/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mumias East, DAP-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Salasya",
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    "content": "As a result of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Agreements on trade, soon there will be duty-free sugar being imported into the country. This will pose a lot of challenges in our sugar industry. Additionally, it will pose health risks to Kenyans. Therefore, I beg the Ministry of Trade, Investments and Industry that we need to have these regulations so that the Government is in a position to trace any sugar that comes into the country. For example, if there is sugar that has been imported from Nigeria, Kenyans should know that it has come from that country and has been branded by a specific factory. Kenyans have a right to know where the sugar was manufactured and if safety measures, as per KEBS, have been fully complied with. That will protect our people and the local sugar industry. It will also help the Government in tax collection as it will be easier to trace and know whether the sugar that is imported into the country has been duly taxed. This will in turn increase the revenue in the country. I ask Members to support me by considering this Motion so that any sugar that comes into the country is safe. I also wish to say that no sugar should be branded by supermarkets unless we are convinced as to why they should do so. Sugar should be strictly be branded from the manufacturing companies."
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