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    "id": 624496,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ngetich",
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        "legal_name": "Cecilia Chelangat Ngetich",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for this opportunity. I wish to add my voice to what my colleagues have said. I support the Report. Over the years, there has been a tendency of killing our industries. A number of them are not operating now. The sugar industry has had historical and perennial problems. Why they have never been solved leaves a lot to be desired. Sixty five per cent of our youth are out their “tarmacking” because there are no industries to absorb them. As a result, we are entrenching poverty instead of alleviating poverty. Resources such as time and money have been put in this Report. The only way the public will get value for their money is to see that there is proper implementation. We do not want to be a country where we are known for producing very good policies but they are hardly implemented. We are known in this House to be producing very good reports and yet none is implemented. I do not want to blame the Committee on Implementation but apart from them monitoring, there should be very clear procedures and actions to be taken should they find that there are people curtailing the full implementation of this Report. We want to see heads rolling and money recovered. It is not just enough to mention someone and take him to court. There should be a way of recovering the amounts of money that are lost due to negligence or embezzlement. It is time to be serious as a House. We will need reports from committees as to how far they have gone in implementing the reports that are under their responsibility otherwise, the Committee did their best. They have unearthed the problem. We need to save farmers from the agony of losses because farmers rely on sugarcane as suppliers or sugarcane cutters so that they get money to pay school fees. If they are not able to educate their children, we end up with illiterate children and poverty continues within that community. As per the Report, the people killing the sugar industry are the elite. We have seen reports to the effect that so much sugar has been impounded costing millions and billions of shillings. If you follow the reports keenly, you will realise that it is not a simple person who can afford such an amount of money to import sugar. So, when you try to follow up, there is the idea of going for the “small fish” and not the “big fish”. We want to see the law being applied to all. Let us see heads rolling when there are mistakes committed. So, the Report should be implemented to its fullest to save these farmers from the agony that they face. Thank you."
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