{"id":806437,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/806437/?format=json","text_counter":177,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Mwangi","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":75,"legal_name":"Ephraim Mwangi Maina","slug":"ephraim-maina"},"content":"Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance. It is a criminal act for anybody to think of importing sugar that has mercury, knowing what mercury can do to Kenyans. I blame the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) because they should have identified this problem at the Port of Mombasa. This sugar could not have gone to counties if KEBS had done their work. However, I believe this must have been a conspiracy; it is not a one man act. It must have been a conspiracy between Government agents and, more so, officers at the KEBS and those in big offices in Government for such sugar to come to Kenya. This sugar is believed to have come from Brazil, which is the largest sugar producer globally. A lot of sugar has been imported into this country from Brazil. One wonders why this particular sugar had to contain mercury. Mr. Sugar--- Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in Nyandarua County---"}