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    "id": 1055288,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Adan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Hajj Ali",
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    "content": " In my view, this is an extraordinary situation that calls for an extraordinary intervention. Therefore, among the raft of measures the Government has put in place to breath some life into our economy is the signing of this EPA. We must laud the Government of Kenya, despite all the challenges they have had in terms of other East African Community members failing to come along to negotiate together as a bloc, they found it fit to move ahead. This was a very necessary step because Kenya is in a different state of development what we call lower-middle income economy unlike Uganda, Tanzania and others in the EAC, who enjoy the privileges of being least developed countries in an arrangement called everything, but arms. They are able to export their goods to the European Union and United Kingdom duty free and quota-free. The only thing I wanted to clear in two minutes was the issue which was raised by many stakeholders; the issue of sanitary and phytosanitary standards. Other than the concern for health, the sanitary and phytosanitary standards have something to do with maximum residue levels in food and on animal feeds that are exported to foreign countries. Maximum residue level is defined as the highest pesticide residue or limit that is legally tolerated in food and feeds that will find its way to humans. It is an issue of health and we cannot compromise. We have a big problem in Kenya because of the counterfeit pesticides which are flooding the market. Once we tame that and encourage our farmers to adopt the best practices, we will take advantage of this Agreement and our farmers will be very happy. With those few remarks, I beg to move and ask Hon. Jared to second."
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