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    "id": 822254,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/822254/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " He allowed importation of excess sugar via a Gazette Notice. Hon. Speaker, if you want to help the House, please, debate, this idea of shouting before I even mention what I want to say is wrong. You cannot intimidate and blackmail me. I am a senior Member. I understand what I can say. So, Gazette Notice No.4536 allowed anybody to import sugar up to 31st August. It is clear from this Report that after 31st August 2017, there was still shortage of sugar in the country. That is in this Report. I will read. Just listen I read: “Millers, under the umbrella of the Kenya Millers Association, reached out to the CS for Agriculture and Livestock and the Directorate of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority (AFFA) to discuss the need of restricting importation of sugar to only allow millers who had the capacity of ensuring quality sugar was sourced and imported.” The response the millers got from the Ministry was that restricting permission to import sugar to millers would amount to discrimination against other traders. That is the Report of this Committee. What does that mean? It means that the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries insisted that the importation should be done by anybody. So, it is not the decision of Rotich. Hon. Speaker, I want to continue and say this as I sit down, the Gazette Notice that is being talked about lapsed on 31st August 2017. After the lapsing of that Gazette Notice, the Ministry did an assessment and found that there was still shortage of sugar in the country. Then you are telling us that, that Gazette Notice allowed excess sugar and yet the Gazette Notice referred to here, lapsed on 31st August 2017 and still after that, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries recommended that more sugar should be brought. So, what are you telling us that Rotich allowed excess importation? Tell me. If you have been given something to move, move it and convince me. I want to be convinced how this Gazette Notice No. 4536 allowed excess sugar yet after the lapse of that notice, Kenyans still did not have enough sugar and the Ministry advised that more should be brought. Hon. Speaker, let us be serious. If you want to play politics, we can play politics, but if we are saying what is in this Report, there is nothing in this Report that one would use to implicate Rotich to take personal responsibility for Gazette Notice 4536. If you said generally, I would understand. However, if you are specific to Gazette Notice No.4536, which lapsed on 31st August 2017 after which the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries still went to the National Treasury and asked for more importation, we have to be serious. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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