{"id":807465,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/807465/?format=json","text_counter":426,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Uriri, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Mark Nyamiti","speaker":{"id":13500,"legal_name":"Mark Ogolla Nyamita","slug":"mark-ogolla-nyamita"},"content":" I just wanted to say that we should start with the Treasury. There is no single Gazette Notice that can see the light of day in the approval of the Treasury. I sit in the Budget and Appropriations Committee and I am on record as having asked the Cabinet Secretary in charge what he is doing about the sugar industry. He was very blatant, and the records of Parliament are there, to confirm what I am saying. The Cabinet Secretary said that State- owned sugar companies are going to be sold and the Treasury is not going to do any particular thing. What we are seeing seems like it is a decision that has been made in the Government that they want to allow excess importation. I remember having asked him how he could allow free importation of sugar without a cap. How do you give a Gazette Notice without a cap? The last Gazette Notice that allowed for free importation of sugar did not specify the quantities. It was deliberately intended to allow unscrupulous dealers who already had sugar at The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."}