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    "id": 619489,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nooru",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2238,
        "legal_name": "Adan Mohamed Nooru",
        "slug": "adan-mohamed-nooru"
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sometimes, farmers carry the burden of maintaining roads when it is the SDLF, KeRRA and the CDF which are supposed to maintain these roads. This seems to be uncoordinated. Therefore, we recommend that the two levels of Government, namely, the national and county governments, should coordinate and develop infrastructure for cane farmers. (vii) The national Government should implement the National Land Policy to mitigate further land sub-division to improve productivity. (viii) Fertiliser subsidy be implemented by bulk procurement of other farm inputs and capacity utilisation which should be done by the sugar directorate. (ix) Investigations should be carried out on Mumias Sugar Company and its agents, the KRA and all importers, the agents who purported to have imported or exported sugar from Mumias Sugar Company for the period between 2006 and 2012 and appropriate action taken against them. (x) The KRA should be held responsible for the loss of Value Added Tax (VAT) amounting to Kshs577 million for fictitious exportation of sugar by the Mumias Sugar Company. (xi) Any officer from the Board and management of Mumias Sugar and KRA responsible for fictitious exportation of sugar between 2006/2012 be held responsible for abuse of procedures and abuse of office. (xii) The national Government introduces landing certificates for all transit sugar as confirmation of physical existence to stop any dumping of sugar into the local market. (xiii) The Government should consider offering tax breaks to encourage new investors into the sugar industry. Additionally, a duty waiver for the sugar industry farm inputs and farm machinery will go a long way towards reducing the high cost of sugar production in this country. (xiv) That, KPMG having provided a disclaimer as to the accuracy of the Draft Factual finding Report, Mumias Sugar Company avails with immediate effect the final KPMG Report to the National Assembly. However, the Committee took cognisance of the same KPMG Report. (xv) Officers from Mumias Sugar Company and the KRA who abused import and export procedures with regard to import permit requirements in the importation of 10,000 metric tonnes of sugar in 2012 from Sudan be held accountable for their misdeeds. Mumias Sugar Company is supposed to produce sugar and how it ended up importing 10,000 metric tonnes of sugar in 2012 is questionable while it should have been producing sugar and promoting sugarcane farmers through buying canes from them. They stopped producing and bought sugar like ordinary traders from the outside market. They are competitors in the market. That is disastrous. Finally. (xvi) That Delloite & Touche audit firm be held responsible for misleading the Government, other shareholders and public on the state of affairs in Mumias Sugar Company during the period of their engagement as auditors. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Mumias Sugar Company has been having a lot of liquidity problems, but this has been covered up by fake audit reports which have been misleading. The audit firm must be held responsible. Delloite & Touche is an international The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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