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    "id": 822216,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/822216/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mumias East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Benjamin Washiali",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 151,
        "legal_name": "Benjamin Jomo Washiali",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for the permission. I want to request the Members of this House to sympathise with us, the Members who represent sugarcane farmers. As we speak, farmers are doing literally nothing. Farmers have already delivered cane to millers, but they have not been paid. Farmers have cane on the farms but are not able to harvest because they cannot sell it to any miller, and even if they were to sell it, they would do so at a throwaway price. We are talking of sugar importation. It is cane that produces sugar. The CS for the National Treasury was well advised, in advance, by his counterpart for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries on what that Gazette Notice was likely to do to sugarcane farmers. If you allow me to quote, CS, Willy Bett, on 18th May 2018, wrote a letter, which read in part: “Please also note that the sugarcane pricing mechanism links the price of sugar to the price of cane and therefore unregulated importation of sugar will lead to collapse of sugar prices resulting into drastic drop of cane prices, which will directly affect the 300,000 sugarcane farmers with their dependants”. Honestly, with this kind of advice from the CS in charge of agriculture, the CS in charge of the National Treasury should not have gone ahead to give notice to allow open importation without regulation of sugar importers."
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