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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Okemo",
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        "id": 198,
        "legal_name": "Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, after the President had promised, who was I not to promise? You take the President’s promise in good faith. I could not have contradicted him. So, I was just following his footsteps. Now I will also follow the footsteps of the Prime Minister and tell the people of Busia that the factory is coming because he will make sure that it comes. I hope it happens because 2012 is very close. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, to me, I think the idea of zoning does not make sense because if you get proper and quick-maturing cane varieties, then a small area can produce a lot of cane. We do not need to zone. So, I think we should spend a lot of our efforts worrying about getting quick maturing varieties. We should make sure we can do a little bit of irrigation, so that instead of waiting for 18 months, we can actually get cane harvested between eight and 10 months. That is really the formula and not zoning and saying that within a distance of 40 kilometres, we cannot have another factory. That is outdated and it does not help anybody. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in conclusion, I really want to urge the Minister to make sure that the Sugar Act (Amendment) Bill comes to the House as soon as possible. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the Prime Minister in advance - although we have not seen the factory; it is still a promise, we hope it will come sooner rather than later. With those few remarks, I support."
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