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    "id": 937632,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "It was taught in universities how a rural village has turned into a massive successful enterprise. Today, the workers of Mumias Sugar Company have not been paid a single cent for over a year, and then a Receiver Manager comes in and visits upon all of them instant dismissal. I have asked this question loudly and the Chair of the Committee that will look at this may wish to find out. The national Government of the Republic of Kenya has substantial interest in Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB.) The national Government of Kenya has substantial interest in Mumias Sugar Company. Why would the left hand put the right hand under receivership? It is the same Government. In 2015, I attended a very well attended rally in Mumias addressed by the President of the Republic, his deputy and many other leaders. The President said in our presence: “My Government will not let Mumias Sugar Company die.” Looking at the figures of Mumias Sugar Company, with just under Kshs10 billion, you will turn around Mumias Sugar Company completely and take it back to where it should be. How can a Government that is committed to industrialisation, creation of jobs and the Big Four Agenda let the existing industries die when its agenda is to set up industries? This is a serious issue Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this House passed the opening of the national debt ceiling to the Jubilee Government. Could the Chair of the Committee in his intervention find out how much of the trillions of Kenya Shillings that we have given this ever borrowing Government will be given to Mumias Sugar Company, Nzoia Sugar Company, Chemelil Sugar Company, Miwani Sugar Company, Sony Sugar Company, Muhoroni Sugar Company and all those factories that were started by the first Government of this Republic, to arrest rural-urban migration and create jobs in the rural areas?"
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