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    "id": 1488734,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1488734/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me take this opportunity to sincerely thank Hon. Wangwe for following up through with this Bill. It is a stage which seems to be like the end of the long journey. The collapse of the sugarcane industry in totality has brought a lot of miseries since 1980s and 1990s. Attempts to revive them have just been piecemeal and probably politically initiated for purposes of achieving political gains. But, for the very first time, we have followed through this process until we are where we are today. Accolades must also go to Hon. Wamunyinyi. He is the one who initiated this Bill in the 12th Parliament. He processed it, but as usual it died, so to speak, in the Senate before it was completed. We stand here today to say thank you for the effort you made. We must also thank the Sugarcane Task Force that has been on this for a long time. I know my colleague, Hon. Nabwera, has also been on it all along. The idea of correcting the sugar sector began around 2008 to around 2011. I was happy to be involved by a consultancy that was led by Standard Investment Bank to get here and we said we must move with speed. Sometime last year, the Government also initiated the process of leasing the various publicly owned sugarcane companies. I believe and hope that this process will continue because the assumption is that the Government is not supposed to be in business."
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