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    "id": 319116,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/319116/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamalwa",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 148,
        "legal_name": "Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa",
        "slug": "eugene-wamalwa"
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to support this Bill. This country has set out on a reform agenda in all our sectors and it is very important that this day that this House is discussing reforms in the sugar sub-sector. This Parliament is dealing, for the first time, with concerns that have long been raised by farmers, particularly those from Busia County. There has been the long outstanding issue of the Nasewa land where farmers of Nasewa have been crying out for justice to see that the land was purchased by public funds to ensure that a sugar factory is established in Busia County is finally returned to the people of Busia County for purposes of establishment of this factory. As we address the reforms that are being carried out in the sugar sub-sector through this Sugar (Amendment) Bill, 2011, we are very pleased that the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives and the Departmental Committee on Lands and Natural Resources are already dealing with the Nasewa issue. The Committee has had time to visit Busia. I want to thank the two Chairmen, that is, hon. John Mututho and hon. Musyimi for taking time to visit this area. They not only visited Busia County, but also Mumias. There are issues that are now being addressed by the joint-Committee. People are being summoned to answer questions which in the past we thought might never be answered in this country. This is the kind of change that Kenyans have been fighting for and we want to congratulate the Minister for bringing this Bill. We know that farmers have been crying out for a long time to have reforms in this sector to address particularly issues touching on delivery of cane where they have had to travel long distances to deliver their cane when they have hoped that the weighing of cane would take place at the farm gates"
}