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    "id": 47079,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/47079/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ndambuki",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 191,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the over-matured cane; we will come up with regulations in the new Act whereby if one mill cannot crush cane, to be able to pass it to another miller to crush it and pay farmers promptly. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the mismanagement, we have looked at that. On inefficient and obsolete factory machinery; all these problems we have in the sugar-cane subsector, it is purely on machinery. Most of the factories are running on obsolete equipment. That is why we are saying that we need to privatize them, so that we can have new money injected in, so that we can buy or improve what we have. Because without doing that, we will still continue talking of shortages and high prices. But with new investors in mind, we will deal with that problem. We are looking at that option. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other thing I want to talk about is privatization. Mumias Sugar Company was privatized, but within a very short time, farmers sold their shares. Why? I want to address the hon. Members from sugar-cane growing region---"
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