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    "id": 47019,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/47019/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with some of the recommendations that are contained in this report, for example, with regard to the cheating of the cane farmers through the weighing scales and so on. But those are details which the Ministry of Agriculture is going to competently respond to. Let me conclude by saying that this is just one area, but we have several other areas which require liberalization, if we really have to move forward. This sector is not going to be competitive enough to compete when the COMESA safeguards are removed. These factories will collapse basically because of the inefficiencies that have been identified. We cannot run sugar factories as parastatals. Public management has been found to be wanting and inefficient. We also do not do this when they are being micro-managed. You find that the Board itself is being micro-managed by the bureaucracy. That is why it is necessary to let go, so that these companies can be run efficiently as private companies. That way, the farmers will get value for their money. If there is proper competition, farmers will be paid more promptly because you will have the large-scale factories and the mini-factories side by side."
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