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    "content": "allowing the sugar cane farmers, the growers and even institutions investing in this sector to get more resources. If they get more resources, the sector will expand and satisfy the local sugar consumption. We have a potential local market for this commodity. The formation of the Sugar Board is very important because the new Board will be expected to give real services and motivation to farmers. We have seen boards crippling services by misappropriating or embezzling resources meant for the sugar cane growers. Therefore, it will be important for the new Board to be accountable and transparent. Once credit is released to the Board, these resources must be given to the farmers. On Clause 12, where the Minister has been given the sole responsibility of appointing five members, I think it will be prudent if one-third of these appointees were women to give credit to gender balance. On the appointment of the Managing Trustee, this responsibility must be carried out well so that the Minister does not appoint a relative, and ethnicity or tribalism will not be exhibited in the whole process. National diversity should be encouraged and all Kenyans must be allowed to participate in the whole process. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the privatization process, which is on Article 18, this is a very welcome development. Time and again in this country, we have seen parastatals or companies that are privatized while on a very shaky ground. These sugar companies must be privatised when they are viable and solid so as to attract investor confidence. It is, therefore, important that the disputes we have seen between sugar companies which are competing for sugar cane and where structures are almost burnt are settled immediately by the newly-created Tribunal. Therefore, it will be important that this sector is given the necessary support by the Government so that it will not die the way we have killed other parastatals or companies. With those few remarks, I support this Bill."
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