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    "id": 521148,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/521148/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) F. M. Mutua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Florence Mwikali Mutua",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute on this Motion. The sugar sector is currently facing many challenges and there is a very urgent need to save the industry. We have a lot of cheap imports coming in. The COMESA deadline is with us and it is a great concern to us Kenyans. I must say that I am a member of the Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives Committee. We have done a lot of work with regard to the Report that is related to the sugar sector. I must report that the Committee has taken a lot of time to finish this Report. This is because we had to interview many organizations. We have managed to get a lot of information. For our Report to be airtight we had to get a lot of documentary evidence. We already have the evidence. So, our Report will be airtight and it is going to give key recommendations on how we are going to save the sugar sector. The Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade had given conditions that we have to put some legislation in order and that has been done. The Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority is already in place and privatisation can be looked at now. Before we even embark on the issue of privatisation, a lot of other issues need to be looked at. The sugar sector is suffering not because those organisations are not privatised but because of issues of cheap imports which are caused due to high production costs that affect our sugar industry. 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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