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    "id": 1338629,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also rise to support this Motion and to thank Hon. Salasya. You realise for the last few weeks, we have been talking about sugar and pushing the agenda. Here we are now talking about branding. If you look at those steps, you realise that this is an industry that is very emotive because sugar is just like gold; it is a drug. It moves and everyone would wish to do this business because they know it is big business. As we move on and even appreciating what the President has done to remove the debt, we must now start talking about branding because that is how you bring back the economy of that industry. We should look at what happens in the supermarkets. Today, if you walk to any supermarket, you will find sugar that is branded in the names of the supermarkets and you wonder where it is imported from. You remember in 2014, Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) had warned retailers against packaging sugar without labelling the name of the miller and the origin of the sugar. However, one thing that we find very difficult in this country is we go into something, push an agenda and all of a sudden, we just relax and things just go back to where we started. That is the biggest challenge we always face as Kenya. We are very vibrant in pushing for an agenda then all of a sudden, all the institutions that are supposed to monitor and implement become compromised hence we end up struggling with the same challenges. If you go to all the supermarkets, you will find unbranded sugar but no one is asking about it yet KEBS sent out a warning regarding this. If, indeed, Parliament is serious about reviving the economy, then we have to fight corruption. We can do that. We need to focus on that. Kenyans are struggling and suffering. As a Parliament, how can we cushion them?"
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