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    "id": 664323,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/664323/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "diversify and see how they can get the sugar into the mills with the least cost because if 40 per cent of the sugarcane from the farm to the millings is lost, we are not making good sense of what we are doing. We need to get everything that is harvested. A loss of 5 per cent is understandable, but a loss of 40 per cent of sugarcane before it reaches the factory needs to be looked into. A government cannot afford to be subsidizing sugar factories day in, day out because sugar factories are being mismanaged. People are stealing from sugar companies to a point that the companies go under. We have private sugar companies which are doing very well. Apparently, the sugar factories that are run under Government ownership are the ones where people steal from. Why are they not being brought to book? We need to prosecute the people who steal our money in the sugar factories and seize their assets. Unless we do that, we will still be losing money. It is not just in sugar companies where farmers are losing, it is the whole Kenyan economy which is losing because the money to subsidise sugar factories could be used to do something better for agriculture in our country."
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