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    "id": 620479,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/620479/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "id": 1987,
        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
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    "content": "The regulatory authority should be held responsible. I have seen that the Committee has also recommended that. They have flooded this country with imported sugar and made farmers not only in Mumias, but in sugarcane growing areas poor. Sugarcane growing is not attractive at all. I support exactly what the Committee has said. I do not have to repeat the recommendations because Hon. Washiali has brought them forward. I refuse and urge this House to refuse the singling out of Dr. Kidero for punishment because the recommendations of the larger Committee never did that. Hon. Speaker, now that there are very many candidates competing for the Nairobi gubernatorial seat, we can read politics in this matter. This is a divergence because it came from outside as it was not in the Committee’s Report. This may be something that has been cooked and an afterthought to block Dr. Evans Kidero from contesting. What if the Committee’s findings are that Dr. Kidero is not culpable and yet you have recommended that he should not hold public office? Are you not destroying someone’s career? It is good to follow due process. The recommendations are very clear like day and night. Let us follow the Committee’s recommendations and not those of an individual assumed to be working and getting contracts from Mumias Sugar Company. With those few remarks, thank you Hon. Speaker."
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