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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musimba",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Mweu Musimba",
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    "content": "sector that leans towards the labour force of this nation. It should be one that will grow and ensure prosperity for future generations. Colleagues have spoken about issuing shares to people. They discount them because they do not see immediate benefits because social pressures such as school fees and high cost of living face these people on a day to day basis. That is why I am thinking about preambles, which are very well articulated in the report as the issues facing this particular industry. The main thing is in establishing a futures market. This would ensure that prices are locked in because production has been there consistently. We are aware of how much land mass we have and what sort of technologies would come through. This would ensure that our farmers and our greater populace would at any given point in time afford goods and services either as inputs towards continuing being farmers or their entire well-being in affording just their lifestyles as it were. These futures market would ensure that the 42 million Kenyans and even those external to our borders are actively participating in our sugar industry. We would look at the basic infrastructure and echo things like the annuity programmes. The report ably states that one of the challenges is poor road infrastructure. If we go ahead and privatise these particular industries and we have not sorted out the infrastructure, the same entities are going to be bedeviled with the issue of poor roads. We should be thinking, as preambles, to sort out the infrastructure of getting the goods to market in a timely manner. We need to ensure that sucrose does not get lost at the farm level due to poor collection or turn-around times because of breakages of the cars that are being employed and deployed to these areas. Electricity penetration is very important. Within these zones, we should ensure that farmers are able to tap into the latest technologies and use cloud-based systems that ensure that their rural-urban planning is adequately covered. I am looking at the issues of rogue management. If people inevitably do not have things like performance contracting measures, they will not perform. We spoke about the existence of corporate governance practices. This has to be locked into a realm of performance-contracting. That before a firm goes down, all the indicators are there, the shareholders are checking them and are strong as opposed to attending an annual general meeting and the people who are aggrieved have little voice in the direction of the firm. This is because the management is not sensitive or does not have appreciation of the heritage that seven million people are aggrieved with. Then there is the issue of history. Our country is heavily based on labour practice. We must think about changing tastes and preferences within consumers. We must grow the cottage industry. What am I alluding to? The confectionary market in the world is really huge. Despite what the inputs of our sugar industry--- The cost of production right now is US$1,100 per tonne against countries like Mauritius, which is at US$230 and 240 a tonne because they have a massive number of acres of land under production. It could be the job of the National Assembly to aggressively look at our core industries as we seek to embrace industrialization. Our core companies employ a paltry 300,000 people. Our cottage industries employ in excess of two million people. Our industrialization policy needs to be very active towards growing these particular numbers in order for us to grow confectionary products, which have a niche through branding, different mixes and nutrition. The world right now is moving towards nutrition and saying that it is not only The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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