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    "id": 431237,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/431237/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Opiyo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odhiambo Opiyo",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, when I said that there was a part of the Statement that was not responded to, I was thinking that the Chairman would give Kenyans hope by saying that the Government is going to avail money to mop up all the sugar in the market to allow the industry to sell its sugar so that farmers can be paid. In SONY Sugar, for example, where I come from, farmers have not been paid from the month of October 2013 and the children are at home. They are not going to school and there is serious suffering among farmers. He did not acknowledge that there is a part of the Statement that was not responded to and I think that is sad. I just want to say here that the problems that are facing the sugar sector are so grave that if, in your wisdom, you would allow us; we would bring a Motion here to ask that we be allowed to form an ad hoc Committee to look into this matter once and for all. I think that is the way to go because it looks like the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives has too much work and, therefore, cannot address adequately serious sectoral issues."
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