{"id":608140,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/608140/?format=json","text_counter":325,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"that could have been sorted out by the KSB is awaiting arbitration by the courts. The resultant effect being that West Kenya Sugar Company and Butali Sugar Company, that were the most efficient, are now taking advantage to the extent that the price of sugarcane has dropped from a whooping Kshs4,200 per tonne when the competition was at its peak during the days of KSB to now a paltry Kshs2,600 per tonne. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, since I am the Senator of the sugar cane farmers, I feel the same pain that the Senator for Nyandarua, our brother Sen. (Eng.) Karue, feels for potato farmers. I want to plead with my brothers and sisters in this House that we come back with an urgent amendment Bill so that we reverse that unreasonable law if, for nothing else, but that we say that the AFF Act was not allowed to go through this Senate because the Amendment Bill that amended it was a Bill concerning counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to support and I thank you for the opportunity to contribute."}