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    "id": 1187142,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Uasin Gishu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gladys Boss",
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    "content": "but also to the environment and biodiversity. The relevant Committee tabled a report on the petition. However, the resolution of this House is yet to be implemented. There is still prevalence of chemical pesticides in Kenya. These products were classified as follows: 1. 24 products cause cancer. 2. 24 products are mutagenic. 3. 35 products cause endocrine disruption. 4. 140 products are neurotoxic, causing brain damage in children. 5. 262 other products show clear effects on reproduction toxicity and are carcinogenic. Hon. Speaker, we should be concerned that about 76 per cent of the total volume of the pesticides used in Kenya have one or more active ingredients that are categorised as highly hazardous pesticides. Noting that these highly hazardous pesticides are a global human rights concern endangering, inter alia, the right to food, health as well as clean healthy environment and are regulated by international policy instruments to which Kenya is a state party with direct operational implications in the pesticide management… Hon. Speaker, about 44 per cent of the total volume of pesticides used in Kenya are not allowed for use in Europe and other jurisdictions and that, by some unexplainable double standards, they are still allowed and permitted in Kenya. In fact, these pesticides that I have pointed out have been banned in America and Europe. However, their laws still allow them to manufacture them for export to countries that are ignorant and foolish enough to accept them in their countries. That responsibility falls on the Pest Control Products Board (PCPB) which has failed to undertake its due diligence to protect the lives of Kenyans. This amounts to criminal negligence on the part of the PCPB. In the USA, the Superior Court of California awarded a farmer US$250 million as damages for developing cancer as a result of repeated exposure to Roundup herbicide that is manufactured by Monsanto. The same product is available in Kenya with the approval of the PCPB. The court found that Monsanto did not make information on the dangers of the pesticide available to the public. The same Roundup is found in agrovets across the country."
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