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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Statement alone is not enough. All the issues raised by my colleagues, Senators who have spoken, including even Government parastatals--- I served in the Committee on Energy. If Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. was here, he would have brought to the attention of this House the damage that the Kenya Pipeline has caused to the people of Makueni with the oil spills in Kibwezi. I cannot remember the other place. They have appeared before the Committee. Citizens have come before us, as Senators, and said: “There is nowhere else where we can go and we are looking up to you as our leaders.” Unfortunately, that matter has taken more than two years before the Committee on Energy. If there is a Member of that Committee before us, such are the issues that I want directed to this particular Committee on Health. Today, you may enjoy that you have a good amount of money; you do not drink water from the river or do not live in some of these places that are affected. However, what happens tomorrow when it is a relative of yours or when it gets to a point that our country is so badly affected? Madam Deputy Speaker, even the protection of the social strata of our society has long been eroded. This is because 90 per cent of the time we have no idea what process the foods that we eat have gone through, yet we, as a Parliament, have not come through with regard to this legislation. I, therefore, humbly request that you grant the opportunity to the Senate, through the Ministry of Health, because this is purely a health matter that concerns the lives of our people; to interrogate it and furnish us with a proper report, complete with a raft of paints, fertilizers and companies that are degrading our environment, and what we need to do as a society. I am sure that a resolution of this House to ban some of these things out of existence in the Kenyan market will be enough and the Government will act."
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