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    "id": 1420194,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1420194/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Oburu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 194,
        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
        "slug": "oburu-odinga"
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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, when they take sugarcane from farmers, they mill and sell it immediately and they do not pay the farmers. Therefore, farmers should be free to sell their cane to those factories which have cash and can pay. There is always an arrangement between the sugar factories. If a farmer has a loan from any particular sugar factory and he delivers in a different factory in a different zone, normally that factory in a different zone that has purchased sugar from this farmer, will deduct the loan and pay that particular factory which is owed money. There is no risk of farmers avoiding to deliver sugarcane where they have taken loan. The loan will be repaid anyway. So, farmers should not be oppressed. I am a sugarcane farmer and there is a factory in Moroni, that has not paid me for more than one year. When other factories come to take my cane, which I have spent money and took a loan to develop, they do not want me to deliver the cane to those factories because they say it is poaching. Mr. Chairman, Sir, I continue to suffer and I have loans which I have to pay as a farmer. When you ask them why they are not paying you and they already took your cane, milled it, and sold it--- Where do they take the money? Do they use farmers' money as their working capital? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
}