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    "id": 619735,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 184,
        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you. I appreciate it, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. It is only in our country where people adore money very much. The other thing they adore is land. We are not true to our calling. I watch some of my colleagues. You are aware that this guy has dealt with sugar but they are mediocre and hypocritical. Their mothers cannot afford the same sugar produced in their backyards because somebody has decided to flood our markets with imported sugar. In this Report, the KRA, transporters and management of Mumias Sugar Company are blamed as far as the company is concerned. “Management” cannot be one person but a team of people. When surgery or investigations are recommended, the Committee should follow through. We also want the Committee on Implementation to tell us what the loopholes are, who those KRA agents are and what they are doing because this recommendation is not good enough. We do not know what KRA is doing. We do not know what the channels they were using to collude with the management of Mumias are. It is still happening. Mumias is not doing any better after being given Kshs1billion or Kshs2 billion. It is not. Nzoia Sugar Company is on its deathbed. Miwani Sugar Company is dead. Muhoroni Sugar Company is also dead. Chemelil and SONY sugar companies are dying. The only sugar companies still alive are the private ones. We request the Chair of the Committee to tell us what these loopholes are and which law or legislation we need to put in place to make sure that even if it is incremental, we seal the loopholes day by day. It is not fair. If you went to the sugarcane-growing areas, particularly in western Kenya, and tried to grow sugarcane today, it cannot grow because the soil is exhausted. The Government has invested nothing. Only private people would be able to grow sugarcane. Once privatisation is done, do not tell my mother and father to buy shares. Tell them to farm and let the legislation 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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