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    "id": 46984,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to tell you that the two well known sugar traders were Mr. Lloyds and Mr. Bucklays; both of them ran a business that was called Safe Trade. They had big sugar plantations in West Indies and in other parts of the world. They became so rich that one of them became a banker and the other a shipping agent. That is the sweet story about sugar. Now, we cannot sit here and create a new Lloyds and a new Bucklays. We cannot sit here again to see millions of Kenyans come here year in, year out, and wait for nothing but a debit payment. A debit payment comes this way: a farmer who has 10 acres of land is over-supplied with inputs, which are overpriced. At the end of the year the farmer is, for all practical purposes, supposed to be paying instead of being paid, having waited for 18 months. By any other word, this Committee found this to be scandalous and a total disgrace to the integrity of modern thinking in Kenya, and mistrust of all the efforts that this Government has put into that. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am delighted to see that no less a person than the Right hon. Prime Minister is in the House to listen to this. This is because at the very core of it all, we have a group of people in western and Nyanza now threatened by both COMESA rules and/or sale of those factories. You are going to have mass poverty injected into the people through this skewed policy framework that does not consider the fruit of people’s labour. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have worked out the new Sugar Bill. This Bill will, once tabled here, incorporate the views and good ideas held by the Ministry of Agriculture. We thank them for their views, but I want to remind them that we started this whole business in 1902. They have been there in their slumber. They have been there waiting and seeing one generation after another go to the grave, poor as usual."
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