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    "id": 1488744,
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    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " It is good that Hon. Kiplagat has a mood meter that measures the mood of the House. I will conclude with the issue of the sugarcane catchment areas and the process of appointing or electing members to the Sugar Board. I see here that Lower Western comprises Mumias, Busia, and Siaya. I hope in their geographical delineation of Mumias, they will be explicitly clear whether it is Mumias East Constituency or Mumias West Constituency. This will help us avoid a situation where other people who are purporting to be in Mumias, join the Mumias area. Truth be told, the Mumias people have cut all the sugarcane. They have uprooted all their sugarcane because they have issues with Mumias Sugar Company. They are farming other crops that they probably think are profitable. To allow those who do not have sugarcane farms to continue having directors is a matter that we need to revisit during the election of members to the Sugar Board. We will be there to make sure you only put your mouth where your sugarcane is. You cannot come as a tenderpreneur, an aggregator, and purport to sincerely take the position of a director in the Sugar Board. Since the people of Busia have the largest number of sugarcane farms, we must insist to be given the first slot for the directors. As I conclude, I just want to urge the institute to continuously develop a variety that has high sucrose content and matures faster. A period of 18 to 19 months is inordinately long. It is not economical for a farmer. That is why you find that farmers keep shifting or switching to other crops. We need to find a process that makes it faster. There has been agitation about the pricing mechanism. I believe this Bill has cured that problem and we will no longer have that problem at heart. I support and ask my colleagues who are here, including those who do not come from sugarcane-growing areas but consume sugar, to please vote for this Bill. This includes those who, during our age, used to call girlfriends sugar. It is your turn to also vote and support the people who grow sugarcane. Of course, there are other terminologies I do not want to go into, but it is important to support this mediated version of the Bill so that we proceed to the next level. This will save the farmers of this country and we will avoid the shenanigans and cartels in the sugar importation sector. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. 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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