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    "id": 822189,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to second the Report as tabled and put forward by the Mover. First and foremost, allow me to begin with the genesis of the whole issue. As the Mover said, it is all about the drought that was there in 2016 to 2017 that made the President to give an Executive Order requiring that the Government brings down the prices of sugar, milk and maize in the country. Notwithstanding that, allow me to help the Members to understand the whole document as it is. In the document, we have itemised the list of the very many importers that participated in the Gazette Notices Nos.4536, 9801, 9802 and 10149. These notices, especially 4536, indicated that anybody who was capable to import sugar into the country did so notwithstanding any other condition. It led to the importation of sugar to a tune of 829,000 metric tonnes using 135 importers. Allow me to shed more light on the Report for the Members. We have put 24 annexures to the Report. I request my colleagues to look at them and see what they reveal in terms of what we have reported to the House. We looked at the effects of the entire importation. For instance, what does the importation entail? The importation of 829,000 metric tonnes against the advised quantity of 130,000 metric tonnes led to what we saw in Mombasa. You can see that the capacity of our importers to handle that difference is not there. You could witness that most of the sugar was laid on the bare floor. The handling of most of the sugar at the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) was poor and the transportation of the sugar was not done in a safe environment befitting a food item. The importation led to tax evasion. The 14 companies that have been mentioned should also be an issue to look at as a consequence of over-importation, just like the transactions by SONY Sugar Company and any other transaction that would be identified in the investigation thereto, leading to tax evasion. Importation in that quantity is as good as dumping. The definition of dumping is anything in excess of what you can consume or anything that is not viable in its 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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