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    "id": 619730,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/619730/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 184,
        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
        "slug": "jakoyo-midiwo"
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    "content": "There are private companies which are functioning well in this country. There is Butali, Western, Transmara and Kibos sugar companies. It means that the Government cannot do it, but private companies can do better. Therefore, the work which should be left for Members of Assemblies and Parliament is to make laws to protect the private investors from milking and exploiting our farmers. We can do this and it happens everywhere. When the Government determines through whatever means to give lumpsum cash to sugar factories like it was done to Mumias Sugar Company the other day, I knew it was going to fail. It will be good for a Member from there to ask what that money did, who followed it and how much was accounted for. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am told that only Kshs200 million can be accounted for because the same crooks followed that money to Mumias and stole it. That is not acceptable. We want to change the way the Government does business with those of us from sugar-growing areas. You cannot take Kshs1 billion or Kshs2 billion and give it to a failed factory and yet in Mumias, there are people who have not been paid for cane that they delivered almost five to seven years ago. If I was in the Government and I wanted to play politics because I was looking for votes, I would have given that money to a local bank and told the farmers to walk into the bank, show proof of delivery and get paid. The Government and whoever wanted to play politics would have got a vote. The other tactic failed. It will never work. 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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