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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kiptui",
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        "legal_name": "Grace Jemutai Kiptui",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity. I rise to also support this discussion. I have listened since I came in and heard my colleagues talk about several issues affecting the sugar industry and, by extension, the agricultural sector in this country. It is unfortunate that 50 years down the line, we are still struggling with issues of management and corruption. Every so often, we see the Government bailing out governmental factories or institutions. Until and unless we deal with the corruption aspect and we develop discipline in business, there is no point setting up huge factories and we do not manage them the way a business is supposed to be managed. I wonder where the minds of people who still from such factories are. They are creating poverty in the country. They steal and invest. Very soon we will find a lot of discontentment from the common wananchi who are being exploited. It is a fallacy that somebody is investing thinking that he will be secure with his property when the majority of Kenyans are wallowing in poverty. I wish they would be sensible enough to know that by distributing wealth and taking care of those farmers, they will be securing their own futures. Recently we travelled to Turkey for a humanitarian summit and we came face to face with running refugees from Syria. Every so often we see on television so many buildings being bombed and tumbling down mercilessly. It is the result of people who are bitter with those who have. I want to plead with those Kenyans who are siphoning money from any institution thinking that they are going to be secure themselves to stop. I want to congratulate my brother Hon. Wamunyinyi for this Bill. Members of Parliament from the regions that grow sugar need to form a bloc and try to see that even those who are put to manage the factories have mercy on farmers. I have seen so many farmers whose cane is wasting on the farm and they have nothing to eat and no money to pay school fees. It is a very unfortunate scenario. I hope Hon. Wamunyinyi will lead the caucus to deal with this issue. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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