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    "id": 521160,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kimaru",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Mutahi Kimaru",
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    "content": "When we privatise, those people who will come into possession of these companies will ensure that they are profitable. There is also a way to make the local community benefit. Local communities can organise themselves into cooperatives and buy shares. By so doing, we will have wealth distribution. If there are profits to be made by these factories, that extra wealth that is created through value addition and maximisation of profits will still come back to the local people. There is a good thing in continuing to have the sugar industry. Today, as we have been told, close to seven million Kenyans depend on the sugar industry. I do not know how accurate that information is, but I think quite a number of Kenyans depend on that industry. So, even as the Government is privatising, it is incumbent upon it to ensure that the local people are taken care of. You do not just privatise and the sugar industry is killed in one day. Safeguards must be put in place to protect the industry. It is an important industry that serves so many Kenyans. It would make a lot of economics nonsense if we were to stop producing sugar altogether only to import. Even if subsidies were to be used, those entities ran and the common mwananchi benefitted by selling sugar, it would be fine. That is if that was the only economic activity they would carry out. However, it is also good to look at alternatives. Are there other alternatives that are more profitable? I heard a Member mention dairy farming. Is it an alternative in the long run? I know it cannot be done overnight. Can we look at that as a possible alternative in the long run? I support, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Thank you very much."
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