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    "id": 1397743,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1397743/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "This is basically concerning concurrence of both Houses on Bills that concern counties. Hon. Speaker both the Standing Orders and the Constitution are silent on how long a Bill can take in one particular House; a Bill that requires concurrence of both Houses once referred to the other House. I am specifically referring to the Sugar Bill which we processed in this House late last year. It is a Bill that was sponsored by Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe that also attracted a lot of public interest especially in the Western Kenya region. This is now March, and April is approaching, and we have not seen any indication that the Bill has been brought back, either with or without amendments from the Senate. So, I am not sure how you will guide this but I would really like to plead with you to perhaps use your good office to impress upon the other House to fast-track the Bill. This is because, I was in the village last weekend and the issue of sugar is very emotive. Everywhere we go we are asked: “Where is the Sugar Bill?” On the same note as I conclude in one minute, Hon. Speaker, I know a lot of processes are underway in terms of leasing out the sugar farms, the public sugar mills. Hon. Speaker, you and I know that Miwani Sugar Company was exempted from this process, but as we speak the sugar company is idle and the community around it is suffering. How I wish you would use your good office to perhaps impress upon the President in the same manner he acted on the Mumias case that the court cases around Miwani Sugar Company be withdrawn and an out-of-court settlement be arrived at so that the community can benefit from the Miwani Sugar facility."
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