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    "id": 1379087,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Linturi",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Franklin Mithika Linturi",
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    "content": "request and appeal to the leaders - because you know these people and especially those from the sugar growing areas who are sponsoring others to go to court. It has been said that the people sponsoring those case are only interested in taking over that land belonging to the farmers. This could be the driving force. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have the Sugar Bill that is out for pubic participation. I know the people concerned should be out from the 1st to 9th March. The kind of situation that would bring, for example; running a Sugar Bill without representatives of the sugar farmers within the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) which is supposed to participate in this exercise. We have issues and we are trying to confront them head one. We shall do what we can but whatever small thing you can do as the representatives of the people of this country is to kindly share the ideas with us. Let us know and give us intel to know who these people are so that we can know how to deal with them because we must sort out the problem in the sector. I am not ready any other time, to go to the National Assembly another time to ask for money to pay farmers again. We have already made a request. The National Assembly has passed a write-off of a lot of money; revenue belonging to Government for us to clean up that area and get people to invest strongly in this sector. However, if we continue with the circus of cases stopping and nothing being done, first farmers will lose confidence again and will not support cane growing and we shall not get sugar. We shall continuously import sugar. Those factories and the workers shall be there accumulating debt in terms of salary. It ends up becoming a challenging exercise for us. We do not want to frustrate the sugarcane farmers in the country."
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