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    "id": 252978,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, by the time you harvest, there is no sugar in the cane and there is no weight. In fact, if you are lucky to get any money from the factory when you get your cheque, you might get a bill to pay to the factory because you have lost! That is the kind of business that nobody who is sane ever goes into except somebody who has nothing else to do like our farmers who are suffering. That is the situation in which the Minister is in: That he has farmers who are getting nothing from farming and he calls it an employment of 500,000 people! He is putting 500,000 Kenyans into servitude and poverty! That is why I fled. However, this Motion is giving a warning of an economic catastrophe. This Motion is saying that in two years time we are going to actually wind up the sugar industry. We will wind it up knowing that, that is where we are going. Unless we do something about it, that is where we are headed. This is so because some people can produce their sugar cheaply in our neighbourhood and they have a right to sell it to us that cheaply. We cannot produce ours as cheaply as they do and consequently, we must just wind up. I have never seen a monopoly like the one we have had in the sugar industry; where you are the producer, seller and the market is yours! The market itself is unlimited and yet you collapse. I have never seen such a kind of business where I can go into a business, the market is mine and it is unlimited. Moreover, the person doing the business is the Government yet it collapses."
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