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    "id": 619782,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I support this Report. Maybe to put things in perspective, there has been a bit of drama today and yesterday on this Report on the sugar sector with the Committee against the proposed amendments by Hon. Washiali. If somebody does not say it, it will give very misleading information. I know Hon. Florence has alluded to it. However, what Hon. Washiali was doing by the proposed amendment was to make one person responsible for the rot in the sugar industry in Kenya which is not only misleading, but also erroneous and would not help the industry. We have actually broadened the scope. We have not excluded the person whom he is targeting because he was the Managing Director at around that period. By leaving the opportunity open, it means that anybody who wants to go after Dr. Kidero for the work he did around that period, is free to do so. For us to purport to say that the crisis in the sugar industry in the whole country is attributable to Dr. Kidero is a fallacy and misleading. I say so because every Member has attributed the problem in the sugar industry to cartels. Fortunately, for me, I am able to look at it with fresh eyes because I come from the fishing industry and not the sugar industry. So, I am very proud to say that I am able to look at this from a detached perspective. I have no interest in the sugar industry. I am not a sugar baron and have never traded in sugar, even one kilogramme. Because of that, I was able to look at the issue objectively. Having worked very closely on the issue of counter trafficking in persons, I can only compare this to issues of drug trafficking and trafficking of persons. That is what we have in the sugar industry. I know Hon. Omulele was a bit frustrated when he was saying that we should have done more. Even if you gave any Committee of this House the task to check on drug trafficking or counter trafficking in persons, we will only scratch the surface because of the very nature of the industry. Due to time limit, I will say some of the things that I observed."
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