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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, if we proceed this way, we will be here until, as somebody has said, cows or chicken come back home to roost. I see the level of interest. Everybody is giving their opinion. Health should be of concern as first priority. I do not want to hear about sugarcane growing. This is not about sugarcane growing. I see Members from sugarcane growing areas want to contribute. We are not discussing that. Even issues of tax evasion will be dealt with by another committee. Issues where you want to find out whether legal notices or gazette notices were proper or not, are not for the Joint Committee because that is not going to help us. What is important for us and the country is health; the suitability of the sugar in the shelves. If you visit Namanga, Webuye and other places, at the end of the day, you will most likely recommend that a particular agency goes to investigate. Whatever you do, at the end of the day, you can never arrest or prosecute anybody. So, why do we not leave some of those aspects to those who are charged with that responsibility? The oversight committees will take up those matters. Indeed, some of those issues were captured in the Report of the Crisis Facing the Sugar Industry in Kenya which was tabled in the 11th Parliament. Again, that is not the responsibility of the Joint Committee. It is the responsibility of the Implementation Committee chaired by Hon. 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."
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