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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muturi",
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        "legal_name": "Justin Bedan Njoka Muturi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Minister is trying to deny this off- the-cuff, but it is the truth. I am reading what is printed in the Finance Bill and I am saying that this is inadvisable. If you remove the power to control imports from the Board, what you are going to see is similar to what we saw in the Report that I laid on the Table here about three or four months ago. So, the power to control those imports will be left in the hands of certain mandarins, either in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture or the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). This is dangerous! Actually, this proposal was made about the time I was compiling the Report which I laid on the Table here. I cannot understand this coincidence why the Minister wants to abolish or to remove that power from the Kenya Sugar Board. This is not going to be good. I will be urging my colleagues in the Finance, Planning and Trade Committee--- Unfortunately, they have all left and once again, we are really in a very pathetic situation. I would be requesting the hon. Members of the Finance Committee, who are purporting to have laid a Report on the Table, 3344 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 1, 2006 and I even suspect that the Minister for Finance has not seen it. Some purported Report was laid on the Table today and, like I said when I began contributing to this Bill, that Report, if, indeed, it was going to be a Report, ought to have been laid on the Table much earlier so that hon. Members could read it and see the reasoning."
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