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    "id": 676898,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyoo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": "I am on the Floor. I have been given the Floor. Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to speak to this important Bill. At the outset, I want to say that this Bill will add value to this country. It will advance the security aspect. We have been benevolent with serious insecurity and a lot of arms have been passing through our porous borders, thereby affecting the security and safety of our Kenyan citizenry. With proper warehouse receipting system, the security agents will be able to monitor and detect when there are illegal firearms or gadgets that can be used to cause insecurity in this country. That will be very good. Therefore, it is a step in the right direction. On agriculture, it will serve this country well because those in charge of agriculture will be able to monitor the stock piles of grains and other agricultural produce we have so that when they want to make other orders, they will know whether the orders are what we need or they are more than what we need. It will also help for political reasons, especially among the big businessmen, more so in the Coast, who are opposed to the Government system. In the mafia system, things can be put there and purported to have been imported by you when you do not know about them. The businessmen in Mombasa now have a reprieve. Nobody will come and say that you brought the grains when it was opportune for them and now you are not singing in tandem with them. They cannot come and purport to say that you imported some goods or rice which was yours and they are not yours. It will be a good system. It will also help us in the agricultural sector in monitoring inflow of illegally imported sugar into this country, which is affecting my constituency and a few other constituencies in the western and Nyanza regions. If they are well warehoused and receipted, we will know whether the so-called illegal imports and the sugar from Uganda is coming through the correct channel and if the duty is paid for. Because of lack of proper warehouse receipting, we have had a situation where a lot of sugar has been brought in under the guise of being from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) countries, when we know that COMESA countries do not have enough table sugar for consumption in their own countries. We are wondering how Zambia can be the source of sugar for Kenya, when they do not have enough. We have been wondering how Malawi can export sugar to Kenya. With a proper receipting system, we will know whether the sugar we are getting is genuinely coming from COMESA countries or it is coming from Brazil to Kenya to spoil our market. With those few remarks, I support this Bill. It will add value to this country."
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