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    "id": 358558,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/358558/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shidiye",
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        "legal_name": "Mohamed Muktar Shidiye",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, from the outset, this is one of the most confusing Motions we have handled so far. This country suffers a lot of problems and farmers have been suffering. Many parastatals in this country are not performing very well. This is because of mismanagement. You will realize that taking these parastatals to the counties might not necessarily help. We will just be devolving corruption. When a parastatal is run badly, even if you take it to a county that will not really help. In China, for instance, corporations run by the government are doing very well. Here in Kenya that is not the case. Big corporations in China are able to assist citizens to start businesses in other parts of the country and they are run professionally. We need to ask ourselves certain questions. Are these parastatals operating--- Take the example of Mumias Sugar Company, Nzoia Sugar Company and Muhoroni Sugar Company. Are these sugar factories really viable? Even if you say that you are going to remove all the liabilities like debts, and you start all over again, will they really perform? These sugar factories are not viable. I say this because you need big acreages of farmland to be more efficient. This is because those sugar factories are not viable. It is only in Kenya where you have so many parastatals, all of them milking the economy and not adding value both for the farmers and the national Government, yet every year we allocate them money."
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