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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thangwá",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for protecting me. I will be very happy when I walk in the streets of Nairobi and people say that we look alike. I will be smiling because you are protecting me. I support this report for only two reasons. One of the reasons is the reintroduction of the Kenya Sugar Board (KSB), which was disbanded years ago. This is a board where farmers can articulate their issues and manage sugar cane production. However, I was asking myself whether we are over-legislating as a country. Are we prescribing the law to the people too much that they are unable to perform? When you say that the farmers must have a cooperative and must take their produce to a certain miller, what happened to the free market? I saw that the National Assembly brought a new clause, which made me a little bit happy. I am going to read it. It says- “The Bill be amended by inserting the following New Clause immediately after Clause 19. A grower may deliver cane outside a sugar cane zone provided that the grower has a pre-existing agreement with a miller outside the sugar cane zone.” That tells you that the sugarcane grower can take the sugarcane to wherever they want. However, the contract is also a problem. We are telling our farmers to take their produce to a certain factory, which is collapsing. Therefore, they cannot sell their hard- earned produce, which they have put a lot of input. We compel them to sell to a certain factory that is collapsing. That is why our farmers are not being productive. I continued reading and found out that the National Assembly brought a New Clause that says- “That the Bill be amended by inserting the following new clauses immediately after Clause 19- A grower may deliver cane outside a sugar cane catchment area provided that the grower has no supply agreement with the miller within the sugar cane catchment area that they are situated in and is not indebted to a miller or an outgrower institution within the sugar cane catchment area.” We are trying to make growing of sugarcane have a free market, but we are still somehow telling the farmers they cannot do certain things. Sometimes I look at it and The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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