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    "id": 319137,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if we do not do this, we are simply condemning the people of Bungoma County, South Nyanza and Kakamega County to perpetual poverty. I want to conclude and urge the Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security that this is a matter touching on his Ministry. Some factories use Administration Police or the Provincial Administration to frustrate private cane farmers so that when a farmer who has planted private cane in the Mumias Zone chooses to sell his cane to West Kenya Sugar Factory, that cane is impounded. What law is in operation here that you stop me from selling my cane, which I have planted privately to the best buyer? What greater impunity can you think of than for somebody to use a section of the Provincial Administration to carry out that punitive measure of denying a farmer the opportunity to enjoy better prices out of the rule of competition? This is unless, of course, in his Ministry he wants to ensure that certain factories are enjoying monopoly. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as leaders of this area we are condemning this practice and requesting the Government that sections of the Provincial Administration should not be abused by millers to stop private cane farmers from selling their cane to the best buyer. With those few remarks, I support this Bill."
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