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    "id": 770973,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/770973/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mark Ogolla Nyamita",
    "speaker_title": "The Member of Parliament for Uriri",
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        "legal_name": "Mark Ogolla Nyamita",
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    "content": "On this Motion, my constituency borders Awendo Constituency which hosts the South Nyanza Sugar Company. I rise to support this Motion on the following grounds: Today, SONY Sugar Company is only crushing 40 per cent of its capacity and only producing about 35 per cent of sugar. In fact, if it were not that the Government continues to send money to SONY Sugar Company, they would probably have closed shop. Many people from the area derive their livelihoods from the SONY Sugar Company and many other sugar factories. It is quite amazing when you look at the people who have invested in the private sugar sector – the private sugar millers- the same investors now claim to have expertise in sugar milling. We saw the same investor in paper production the other day. He bought Webuye Paper Factory. It is the same particular group. I am talking from a point of information. About three or four weeks ago, one of the private sugar millers which is bordering my constituency sent away employees, and locked the factory under the guise that they are doing maintenance. We have evidence. Many lorries that were going in there had sugar which we suspect was imported, and then repackaged for local distribution. This is the very factory that is very notorious for sugarcane poaching. The owners reap where they have not sown."
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