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    "id": 1420199,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1420199/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
        "slug": "ledama-olekina"
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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, I do not know whether to support the idea of the ‘youth leader’ or to oppose it. I would like to beseech him to consider the investors who come in and help farmers with inputs. When it comes to the issue of output, all of a sudden that farmer now decides to sell that sugarcane to another miller. How will the miller recover their inputs? What we need to do to safeguard both the farmer and the input, is to further amend that amendment which is being brought. I wish the sponsor would have been listening to it because it would help him. We need to put a caveat where the farmer does not have a contractual agreement with the miller, they are free to sell and there is no zoning. However, where there is a contractual agreement, we have to protect contracts. Therefore, we need to amend that section. That will take care of the reservation of the ‘youth leader’ on that. It will also take care of the interest of the investors. I have seen it in Narok County where, the Trans Mara Sugar Company has invested in the input. When it comes to harvesting cane, sometimes there is a challenge and the is not able to take all the cane at ago, then you find farmers selling their cane. Mr. Chairman, Sir, there are different mitigating factors that we can put in the Bill, such that if the cane is ready to be harvested, and there is a contractual agreement, then with the consent of the milling company, the farmer can sell that cane to another company. That will be a much sober way to resolve this issue. I thank you."
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