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    "id": 624474,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Munene",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mary Wambui Munene",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to speak about the sugar industry. We have been writing the Report on sugar for a long time. We have also discussed about this industry for almost three years now. The Report is being debated in this House and I support it. Farmers are suffering because some people are importing sugar when our sugar is still in the factories’ warehouses. There are also people who say that they are importing sugar and yet they buy it locally and when it reaches the border it is brought and sold in this country at a throw away price. If they want to import sugar, the Government must make sure that sugar from Mumias Sugar Company is sold at a higher price so that importers can buy their sugar from outside. Who is suffering? It is the farmers who have problems. The Government is trying to help the sugar industry but there is a big problem which we need to look at. Let the Government chip in when there is a problem in any industry. We have a problem in the sugar industry and we have talked about this Report for a long time. I am happy because at last we said: “Enough is enough. Let the Government go back to the drawing board and see what the problem is in the sugar industry.” Somebody has said that some people want to kill the sugar industry. When our President went to Uganda, he did not go there because of sugar. We said that if anybody is aware that the President signed any deal on sugar, let him come forward. Let us not politicise the plight of farmers in this country. Let us help them because we know them. Farmers will not have problems if they have money. This is because they will get something to eat. There is a big problem in Mumias Sugar Company. We cannot say that so and so has done this and that when we are not sure. We cannot do a report of witch-hunt. 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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