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    "id": 1061081,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1061081/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "No! If a Member can confirm and he is coming, it can be provided in the Standing Orders. Nevertheless, what I wanted to raise is that on 2nd May 2019, you directed that a Bill which I sponsored on the Kenya Food and Drugs Authority to the Departmental Committee on Health be stepped down. After that, the Bill came for the Second Reading and we agreed to step it down, when Hon. Duale said that he had a meeting with interested people who were stakeholders. We agreed and we were sponsored by both the Ministry of Health and the USA Government to go and see how the USA Food and Drugs Authority work. Since that time, that Bill has been left in abeyance. I thought it is a critical Bill, especially in the current situation where we are facing issues of COVID-19 and the approval of vaccines that are coming into the country. In fact, on the issue of surveillance and other matters concerning health, that is a Bill that can help this country address many of the issues we are currently facing. I request that you give direction on this. Considering that on Tuesday you gave direction that with or without a report the BBI Constitutional Amendment Bill should be tabled, can this Bill be also slotted on the Order Paper so that this House can dispense with it? Thank you."
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