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"speaker_name": "Muhoroni, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. James K’Oyoo",
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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I have listened, with a lot of interest, to the response by my colleague, the respected Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock. I would like to inform him that the response is grossly inefficient. We were given the impression that the purpose of leasing out the industry was to make the industry work better for the citizenry. I am more interested in what will benefit the farmers, workers and generally the locals who donated land when the Government came up with the process of kick-starting the industries. We may need the Cabinet Secretary to come to the Committee and demonstrate to us, one by one, because we would like to put down every process that was done. While the intention was very good, the process was flawed somewhere in between. Therefore, we need further clarification. But more so, our fear is about the land. I am happy that none other than His Excellency has spoken to this fact; that land will not be interfered with. My apprehension is that in Muhoroni Sugar Company, the title deeds have since been removed from a strong room and kept by a receiver manager. We do not know at whose behest or what he is doing with them. We will not take this lightly. The Cabinet Secretary has to come and tell us that the land will not be an issue and we will not ask this another time. The position of land must be made very clear that the investors, who are the lessees, will make use of the factories that they have been so far leased to but will not interfere with the land issue. We may also want to know some of the conditions that were flouted. For example, it was important that any company that had a court case ought not to have benefited from that programme. However, one of the companies that has a litany of court cases has benefited here. So, we need the Cabinet Secretary to find time to come to the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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