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    "id": 1458890,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1458890/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Chairlady, the primary reason for this Bill is to revive the failed cotton industry. Our history as a country has shown that every time we introduce a levy, the body that we are creating here today will be looking forward to raising money, and not developing the cotton industry. That is my fear. We have seen this throughout. You may know this today, and with no pun intended, that the Housing Levy money cannot be used. It is just lying there. The Railway Development Levy, that we introduced in the last term, is also just lying there and not being used to develop the railway line. I oppose anything that introduces money because we have seen that whenever you give boards money, their mandate changes from what was meant to be. If it is in the sugar industry, they will not develop the sugar sector, but will start looking at how to raise money through that levy provision. We have ways of protecting the cotton industry without necessarily having a levy."
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