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    "id": 822325,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/822325/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mumias West, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Johnson Naicca",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Manya Naicca",
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    "content": "As I rise to support this Report, I want to fault the Government. I want them to acknowledge that they made a mistake by importing 829,871 metric tonnes instead of the stipulated tonnage they were allowed. They did not pay tax for the over 400,000 metric tonnes extra sugar that was imported. Calculating that amount, that money is enough to run Kakamega County for one full year. I, therefore, plead with the Government that it must collect these taxes from whoever has this sugar. My main interest here is that the Government has an undertaking to finance the ailing sugar industries. The MSC is supposed to get Kshs12 billion to be on its feet again. If you pass near Muhoroni, it is just an idle thing; it is dead, just like the MSC. I am sure the same is the case with Chemelil. We want to ask the Government to intervene. These factories must be on their feet again. There is no country in the world which does not have sugar factories. Why do we want to depend on imported sugar all the time, yet we have over 11 factories? If we kill them, we would have even killed employment. The MSC has been having over 8,000 employees. Now, it does not have even 150 employees. This is not fair. I want to appeal to the Government to be serious with agriculture. If one of the four pillars is agriculture and they are not taking factories like the MSC, Chemelil and others seriously, then their aim is not right. You cannot build 500,000 houses for people who have nothing to eat; people on empty stomachs. It is better to divert the money meant to construct the 500,000 houses to the milling factories so that we have production. It is better to even sleep outside, but we have something to eat. Lastly, if the MSC and other factories are revived, the economy of this country will also improve. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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