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    "id": 521110,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/521110/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Opiyo",
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odhiambo Opiyo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to contribute to the Motion about this Report. First, I want to inform this House that in the month of January 2013, this honourable House passed a Resolution that the Government of Kenya should clean or restructure the balance sheets of all agro-based industries in this country. All the other agro-based industries of tea, pyrethrum and even coffee had their balance sheets cleaned by the Government. However, that never materialised for the sugar sector. I want to understand if this matter is not a conspiracy against the economies of sugar-cane growing areas. The House may be interested to know that the sugar sector supports the livelihoods of close to 7 million Kenyans and the Government simply reneging on support for the sugar sector looks malicious to me. We cannot simply sell our sugar factories like people selling mandazis in the market. I wish the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade would have engaged Members of Parliament from sugarcane growing areas because they have the feel of their people on the ground. My suggestion to this House is that before we embark on or even attempt to materialise privatisation, I feel that we should revalue our sugar factories. The best thing to do will be to value the lands differently from the machinery."
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