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    "id": 1185196,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this particular debate. As you know, I am not a scientist, I am a lawyer. So, I will not stand here to argue the science. In fact, I took great exception to a statement by my brother, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale that scientist are ethical people. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale went to the same school that I did; Musingu High School and they taught history in that school. You will recall the phenomenon of Nazi scientists; the people who came up with the gas chambers that were used to perpetuate mass murders. Those people were scientists. The people who gave us big things like atomic bombs were scientists. Recently, there was a discussion on whether the Corona Virus was manufactured in a lab. What we are saying is that human beings, irrespective of their training and profession, have the capacity for evil especially, when you put commercial interest ahead of the human interest. I am going to refer this House to the legal arguments and leave the science to Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale though I do not want to call him a scientist. As a lawyer, I understand that under Article 10 of the Constitution of Kenya, whenever any state organ, state officer or public officer makes or implements public policy decision, as grave as this one on the lifting of the ban on the Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), they are bound by the values and principles under Article 10 of the Constitution of Kenya. I will refer you to three of these values. Number one, is participation of the people, what we usually call public participation. We may argue the science and we should be allowed to argue the science but Sen. (Prof.) Kamar has told us that there was a reason why this ban was put in place in 2012."
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