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    "id": 521171,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "fundraising in my place, it is immoral even on my part as the representative of the farmers. One thing that I also would not like to see, and with all due respect to other colleagues of mine who come from probably some parts of this country I may mention, is a situation where after selling these factories, they are relocated, the sugarcane is grown in Nyanza or in Western and transported all the way to another section of this country, say Central. For example fish comes from Lake Victoria but it is transported all the way to Thika for value addition. We would not want like to see a similar thing happening in the sugar industry and it is likely to happen. It is likely to happen because the way this privatisation is going to be rushed, chances are that the people who are going to buy these factories are people who may not even maintain them. In fact hon. Angatia you should be so worried that our people are going to lose these factories. I remember the cotton industry; the ginneries. They were sold out. The people who bought them transported them elsewhere. I do not know where they went and that led to the collapse of the cotton industry. I hope someone is not playing games to crush the economy of Nyanza and Western region by proposing this privatisation. I hope it is with good intentions because it has been acknowledged in this Report that over six million Kenyans directly rely on this sector. I hope and I want to repeat, I hope someone is not on a scheme to destroy the economy of Nyanza and Western because if you finish the sugar industry then you will finish the economy of Western and to a greater extent also of Nyanza region. I support the Report but I expect that a lot is done in terms of consultation moving forward."
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