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    "id": 664357,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Shakila Mohamed",
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        "legal_name": "Shakila Abdalla",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I would like to first of all thank Hon. Wamunyinyi for bringing this Bill. Sugar is a very essential commodity which you cannot afford to do without in any household. Removing tax on sugar will be doing a favour to everybody hoping that it will not only benefit the farmers but consumers of sugar. In this country, it is unfortunate that we have not been able to properly feed our people. Most areas in this country are languishing in poverty and we need to come up with a programme of feeding the nation without depending on relief food or a situation where people do not afford a kilo of sugar. As a grown up person, I can take tea without sugar but children cannot. Sugar is an essential commodity and we need to subsidise tax on it to make it available and affordable to every person in this country. I want to thank the Member who brought this Bill because he thought of what we can do to help farmers and Kenyans to benefit from this commodity. The Government should remove the cartels that are bringing corruption in the sugar industry because even if we subsidise and remove taxes, the cartels will still look for ways of bringing corruption to the sugar market in the country."
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