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    "id": 542815,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Injendi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Malulu Injendi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also come from an area where we grow sugar. I have an experience of private factories in my constituency. The experience I have is not very good when it comes to full privatisation. What happens in most cases--- Well, privatisation improves efficiency in production. However, in most cases what we usually realise is exploitation. The experience I have with two factories is that they are exploiting farmers. Sometimes they make decisions that affect farmers negatively. For example, this year when farmers were expecting to harvest their cane what happened is that, because these are private investors, they decided to harvest cane from Mumias. This was because as Mumias was collapsing most of the farmers were selling their cane so cheaply. Because these are private investors who have no interest in farmers and their business is to make profit and increase on productivity, they decided to harvest cheap cane from Mumias. In this case, the locals were suffering. Most of them were not in a position to take their children to school. I support privatisation of these factories, Mumias being one of them. However, as we privatise these factories we should allow the county governments to have shares, for example, through ownership of the land that belongs to the farmers. I also support this because agriculture is a devolved function. I would support the county governments to have some shares through land ownership. I believe if we involve the county governments, they can have representation on the committees and boards that are running these factories. We will realise delivery of quality service and products to the communities where these factories are based. I would also support this because schools, for example in Western, are up because locals gave out land. This land was given to churches. I remember there was one time when some of the churches wanted to convert these schools into private status and the Government came in to reject this. They were arguing that this land was given for free to the Government to deliver services to the people of the area. In this case, therefore, I support the privatisation with county governments having shares. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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