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    "id": 1184183,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1184183/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kamukunji, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Hassan",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 398,
        "legal_name": "Yusuf Hassan Abdi",
        "slug": "yusuf-hassan-abdi"
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    "content": "The second problem related to GMO is the cross-pollination of seeds. The seeds are controlled and produced by big technical transnational companies from abroad. The seeds are going to be very expensive first of all. The growers will have no rights and they are going to devastate the traditional cultural crops that our peasants and farmers have been planting. Therefore, that would be quite a devastating importation. Finally, is the issue of importation of GMO maize. Even if there is a necessity to import, why can we not import non-GMO maize which is all over the market? We can purchase it and bring it into the country. But even then, it is the timing. Why do we bring in this maize when our farmers are harvesting and there is sufficient maize in the market? Who is benefiting from this? Who is driving this idea? What cartels are likely to cash-in on this one? Why is the Government, that is committed to help to develop our farmers now undermining the very farmers it has been supporting by bringing in cheap GMO maize into the market and destroying their market, and their livelihood? Therefore, I support and reject the importation."
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