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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kobado",
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        "legal_name": "John Owuor Onyango Kobado",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to add my voice to this important Motion. In its amended form, the Report adds a lot of value to this House because we should not be using House privileges to settle political scores. Hon. Speaker, reports are not only meant for records, but they are critical instruments for decision-making. On that note, this Report is coming a little late when decisions about privatisation of the five State-owned factories have more or less been concluded. I want to believe that if this Report came in a little earlier, it would have provided an important input for decision-making. If you look at this Report critically, the monsters we need to deal with and address are the cartels or the sugar barons. The Report clearly brings out the ineffective surveillance infrastructure. We have seen cases where imported sugar is loaded on a holding ship in the Indian Ocean before it is brought to the port, and then given police escort up to Uganda. The sugar is then brought into this country through our porous borders. The agencies that are supposed to stop contraband sugar from coming in through effective surveillance are completely un-coordinated. We are talking about the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), Police Service and the National Intelligence Service (NIS). Their work is completely un-coordinated. However, sometimes, we say that if you want to bend iron, you do it when it is still red hot. We expected this Report to have come in much earlier when we expected it. There is every indication that this Report is not the original Report that we expected. I sit in the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives, and I can attest to that. There must have been a lot of external interference with the outcome of this Report, starting with the Committee. You remember it called for your intervention to get this Report tabled on the Floor of this House, having been in this House for one-and-a-half years - 18 months. 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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