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    "id": 32943,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Okemo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are worried because earlier indications were that the Kenya Sugar Board was actually going to pay Mumias Sugar Company for the outstanding loan, and actually the Ministry of Agriculture had authorised that. They had gone ahead to ask Kenya Sugar Board to appoint auditors to ascertain the actual loan outstanding. That had gone as far as the point where the auditors had produced the report. The report showed that Mumias Sugar Company owed considerably less than Kshs100 million. In fact, Kshs20 million or thereabout, and I suspect that is what must have prompted Mumias Sugar Company to do what they did and they did it in a very clandestine and illegal manner. Even the documents I have here show that Busia Sugar Company had no legal mandate because there are prohibitory orders which had been put on the title deed. Therefore, it had no capacity either to accept or consent in a court of law for the land to be sold. So, the clarifications I would like to get from the Minister is whether the Kenya Sugar Board will still pay the loan as they had committed themselves earlier. If so, what would be the necessity for Mumias Sugar Company to go to court seeking orders to sell land for which the Government has already committed itself to pay?"
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