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    "id": 817465,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/817465/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwangi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 75,
        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was saying the county government needs 120 acres for the purpose of developing a sugar factory. This is supposed to be excised from the 400 hectares of Nyangweta Forest. The county government is also ready to give out to the Ministry of Environment and Forestry 400 acres so that the Ministry can plant trees to ensure that there is forestation in Kisii County. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have talked to the Sugar Directorate and it has no problem with the factory being put up in Kisii County. When the factory is put up in Kisii, it will be in tandem with the policy of industrialization. This factory will create employment for the people of Kisii. It will also create a market for the cane farmers in Kisii. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Kisii County Government has engaged various stakeholders. They have also done public participation. The wish of the Kisii residents is that this land be availed for the purposes of building the sugar factory. Sugar industry alone cannot be economical as we have seen many sugar factories not performing well at the moment. In Kisii, they also want to develop an ethanol plant and generate electricity. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said, when we talked to the Sugar Directorate, they said they are not opposed to this project. Five of the 13 forest areas have already been gazetted by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry meaning that there are only seven other portions which are supposed to be gazetted. These seven portions have been surrendered to the Ministry of Environment. So, it is the duty of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to gazette the seven other portions."
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