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    "id": 620478,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/620478/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
        "slug": "francis-mwanzia-nyenze"
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this emotive but important Motion. The Committee did a good Report and we have findings. Although I do not come from a sugar growing region, I sympathise with the lives of the farmers, children who cannot go to school, suffering and poverty that sugar farming has brought to this country. As a citizen and people’s representative, I want to do everything possible to make sugar farming lucrative. This loss is not small by any means. The Kshs577 million was lost within a period of less than 15 years from 2003 to 2012. I agree entirely with the Committee’s recommendations that those who are responsible should be brought to account. On the Committee’s findings, I am sure Hon. Washiali who never signed it knows that the Committee took a lot of time to go deeper and find out--- In this Report, there is no mention of Dr. Kidero as a person. The Committee realised there was a Board of Management which should be held responsible. The idea of Hon. Washiali bringing in one person in the name of Dr. Kidero and singling him out to be responsible for this loss should be rejected by the House for the reason that it is an individual Committee Member’s observation. He called it an observation. This observation should have been discussed in the Committee, but it was never. Kenya has become a net importer of sugar because we produce 600 metric tonnes and consume 800 metric tonnes. So we import about 200 metric tonnes. 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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