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    "id": 521149,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) F. M. Mutua",
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        "legal_name": "Florence Mwikali Mutua",
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    "content": "We need to look into that first. Our Report has really covered a lot of these issues that our Members are discussing. It will be good if our Report comes next week hopefully because we are going for a retreat to finish it. After that we will be able to articulate issue by issue because right now Members are just talking about privatisation which is just one aspect that is affecting the sugar industry. We need fresh injection of capital for the poorly performing Government-owned mills. It is urgent and this issue needs to be looked at also, but before we do that we need to prioritise what those funds are going to do. We need to look at the people who are running those organisations so that any money that goes there is used well. . We also need to have speedy exploitation of the viable options that we think the Ministry can fast track like the stalled privatisation of the five public sector owned sugar mills. This speedy exploitation will be very useful as we venture into privatisation. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this will also contribute quite significantly to the long term revitalization of the industry by way of injection of the much needed capital and we estimated this to be around Kshs59 billion. As I conclude, I have said that our Report has got very pertinent recommendations on all the issues affecting the sugar sector. I will not preempt. It will be very important that when we discuss the Report next week, all hon. Members who want to contribute to be present so that we can tackle one issue at a time. Before we embark on the privatisation, a lot of public participation and community engagement needs to be done. This is not something that will take place like what I have heard one hon. Member saying that we need to do it before the COMESA deadline. It cannot happen like that. It needs a lot of participation in the community because that is their land and we have to look at all those issues properly. Let us not deal with one issue at a time but let us look at the whole sugar sector together. We have tackled that in our Report. Our Report is airtight, it is a good Report and it is going to guide the House even on issues of privatisation which we have tackled in the Report."
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