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    "id": 619715,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyoo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to tell this House that while people look very concerned or want to purport to be very concerned about the sugar industry, I am one person who must support this Report. I want to say loud and clear that sugar business, sugar milling and sugar growing affect my constituency more than anybody else. My good friend, the Member for Mvita, who has just left, has already informed this House that the oldest sugar milling company in this country is Miwani. This is one of the many sugar companies in Muhoroni Constituency. Mumias Sugar Company has stolen the limelight. Mumias came much later than Muhoroni Sugar Company, which is also based in Muhoroni Constituency. This Report is good and it will help us spruce up the image of sugar farming and sugar milling in this country. I only want to take a small offence with the authors because at one stage they detoured and mistook the sugar industry for Mumias Sugar Company. The task of this Committee was to find ways of trying to remedy the crisis facing the sugar industry in this country. I am happy that most of the challenges have been well articulated in the Report, but we need to go deeper and find out that before Mumias Sugar Company was built in the 1980s, before Mumias went into problems between 2006 and 2012, Miwani Sugar Company which is the oldest sugar company had collapsed. What were the circumstances behind Miwani sugar Company’s collapse? Muhoroni which is the second oldest sugar company was on its deathbed. It had died and had been resurrected by the Government through endless receivership arrangements. Chemelil Sugar Company which was almost the peer of Mumias Sugar Company which was always running very fast to catch up with Mumias is on its deathbed and all these companies I have mentioned were not being run by the Board of Management of Mumias Sugar Company, but by different boards of management. The boards are appointed and supervised by the Government. So, we need to go deeper and find out what is itching us. The problem in the sugar industry is that sugar is sweet and it has become a victim of high corruption. Illicit sugar deals are like any other type of corruption. For you to do corruption properly you must have godfathers 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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