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    "id": 252980,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/252980/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajwang",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 164,
        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you cannot just imagine such a situation but that is what is happening in Kenya. The Government is now faced with insolvent sugar companies which cannot develop sugar-cane because they have no resources to do it. They cannot crush enough sugar-cane and that is why we have to wait for 48 months to crush our cane. They also have dilapidated equipment and old technology. All these lead to the collapse of the industry; an industry where the Government has an unlimited market and we are protecting our market. We are saying: \"Do not bring just yet. Just bring the deficit!\" Even in that limited market, where we have a monopoly, we cannot satisfy our requirements or please Kenyans because we sell to them sugar at exorbitant prices. So, what are we going to do? I do not think that when the Minister stands here to reply he will give us a solution which will reduce the price of sugar so that we can survive in the open COMESA market. I hope he does. If he has some magic that in two years we will sell our sugar at the price which the Malawians sell the sugar to us so that we do not have to buy from Malawi, we will be very happy. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will tell you where we must go. We are sitting on an oil well in Kenya which we are not mining. April 19, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 541"
}