{"id":806481,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/806481/?format=json","text_counter":221,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"The Deputy Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Order, Senators. We have spent quite a bit of time on these two Statements for obvious reasons; that they raised important issues that are topical and of a national nature, as we speak. Therefore, hon. Senators, the two Statements; one by the Senator for Bungoma County - Sen. Wetangula, and the one by the Senator for Kakamega County - Sen. Malalah, relate to a general topical concern that is important to our economy, our country and by extension, to the lives of the people of Kenya in a large scale. In this regard, and considering the immense public interest in this matter relating to the importation of sugar that is laced with dangerous chemicals, I direct that two committees of this House, namely; the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and the Senate Committee on Tourism, Trade Industrialization, be seized of the matter as raised in the two statements, with a view to investigating the matters raised, and report to the Senate within 14 days from today. It is so ordered. I thank you."}