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    "id": 977183,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/977183/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Lugari, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ayub Angatia",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2153,
        "legal_name": "Ayub Savula Angatia",
        "slug": "ayub-savula-angatia"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this important Report on the inquiry into the challenges of the Coffee Research Institute. From the outset, I would like to congratulate the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock. I can see the Report is signed by my colleague and neighbour, the Vice Chairman, Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe. They have done a wonderful job. The recommendation I want to speak on is that a coffee research levy be introduced. This research levy is critical in the development of the coffee sector. Similarly, I would like to urge the national Government that the way the Committee has handled this Report on the coffee sector, should be the same way the sugar industry should be handled. The Government should also introduce sugar development levy to help the sugar industry that is now on its knees. I will also use this opportunity to thank the President, His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, for introducing another coffee sherry fund that will help uplift the living standards of the coffee farmers, especially in Central Kenya where you are given an advance before you deliver your sherry to the milling factories. Similarly, I would like to thank the former President Mwai Kibaki. He waived Kshs10 billion that was loaned to the coffee sector. I would request the Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, that we also need a similar waiver in the sugar industry. We need loans amounting to over Kshs6 billion to be waived so that we can stabilise the sugar industry. We cannot manage to privatise our sugar industry because of this debt. Therefore, the way the Government is handling the coffee sector should be the same way they should handle sugar industry. My brother Hon. Wangwe is here. He was in State House recently with"
}