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"speaker_name": "Uasin Gishu County, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Gladys Boss",
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"content": "exposure to the herbicide Roundup that is manufactured by Monsanto. The court found that Monsanto did not make information on the dangers of this pesticide available to the public. The same herbicide Roundup is currently sold across our agrovets in this country. When it became public that Roundup was a dangerous product, the same agrochemical companies rebranded the product and called it a different name. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we are aware that the Pest Control Product Act Cap. 346 of the Laws of Kenya does not state environmental, human health or biodiversity laws as a concern in the registration process. We are further aware that the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) has been contravening Section 15 of the Pest Control Product Act by failing to publish the available information on actual levels of the pesticides in food samples collected and putting in place a regular monitoring system. We are noting also that the Pest Control Products Board (PPB) has not been following the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) International Code of Conduct on Pesticides Management and further, that nothing has been done to ban or withdraw or any strategy developed to get rid from the Kenyan market of those toxic pesticides. Further, the Government, since my Petition in 2019, has neither established nor strengthened the monitoring system on the use of the pesticides through the data collection on food samples in the market and the levels of pesticides contained. We are also aware that this problem of harmful pesticides and effects is closer to home than can be stated. The Pesticides Atlas that was recently launched by the Heinrich Boll Stiftung Foundation – and many of you received copies – indicates that highly hazardous pesticides such as Roundup are in rampant use in the country. Incidentally, some of those areas have notable increases in the cancer cases. Indeed, the highest rates of cancer are in crop production counties, particularly the Mt. Kenya Region. Most of the counties such as Kirinyaga have been forced to establish cancer centres to cater for the increased cancer incidents. This is not a coincidence. Research has shown that the highest use of the hazardous pesticides and the highest prevalence of cancer are in Kirinyaga County. This is a question of a cause and effect."
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