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    "id": 252956,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/252956/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M'Mukindia",
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        "legal_name": "Kirugi Joseph Laiboni M'Mukindia",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to strongly support this Motion. I have great respect for the Minister for Agriculture, who is also my good friend. I also have great respect for the Minister for Trade and Industry. I also recognise the efforts the Government has put in place in trying to turn around the agricultural sector in this country. Nevertheless, there is no belabouring the fact that what has happened in the sugar industry in this country is extremely shameful. These issues did not start yesterday, they started many years ago. I remember, just to put this issue in the right perspective, way back in 1993, I was appointed the Minister for Commerce and Industry. The sugar sector then was under the Ministry of Trade. We tried, from the Ministry, to put certain regulations in place, but within six months, that department was transferred from the then Ministry of Trade to that of Agriculture. I do not want to speculate why that was done, but the initiatives we had started putting in place disappeared overnight. April 19, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 535 Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the sugar industry has been mistreated in such a way that anybody in charge of the Ministries of Agriculture or Trade and Industry ought to be ashamed to see farmers in western Kenya suffering at the expense of importers of sugar."
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