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    "id": 895054,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/895054/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, there are areas where the President talked generally. In the area of agriculture his comments were that they are waiting for reports of the taskforce. This is an area that touches everybody in the country. There are issues that have been with us every year in the agricultural sector. These more particularly concern the maize farmers and the sugar sector. We need to see concrete results that will come out of the recommendations of the taskforces. I for one truly believe that in the sugar industry the factories should be privatized. The Government has put a lot of money into Mumias Sugar Company over the years; not just during the Jubilee administration, but in the two terms of President Kibaki. A lot of money was allocated to Mumias Sugar Company. Even when the company was doing a lot better than it has done since, the Kenya African National Union (KANU) Government also gave a lot of money to them. There are factories such as Miwani Sugar that are completely dead and not worth talking about. Madam Temporary Speaker, these factories should be privatized, but regulated so that the farmer does not suffer. If they cannot be privatized in the traditional way, farmers should form cooperatives with injection of investments from other partners, so that the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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