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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caroli Omondi",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I will try and be brief because I have two of my sisters here that also want to contribute. First, let me begin by telling a story. When sugar was first introduced in this country, it was at the City Stadium and Africans would be called on a Saturday and forced to take sugar because we did not know what sugar was. That is how it was introduced. They would be put on a queue, given free sugar and caged to take it. That was in the 1920s. After that, the first sugar mill in this country, which was Miwani, was actually started by Indian immigrants, Jamal and Mr. Indocha. What the record shows all over the world is that sugar mills that are state-owned do not work. I was in Cuba last year, and the sugar industry there has collapsed. In Kenya, all the private mills are profitable while all the public mills are in distress. It is because of politicians and people who have been in this House. We are the same people who have destroyed the sugar industry in this country as politicians. I have been a director in all the public sugar mills when I was a State Counsel and so, I have seen the evolution. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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