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    "id": 1191104,
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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sabina Chege",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I really support my sister as I also condole with her friend and the family. The Deputy Speaker has been very passionate about this matter. I just want to register that this matter was brought before my Departmental Committee on Health when I was the Chairperson, and we deliberated on the matter. It was in the form of a Petition over which we involved several stakeholders. But I am sad. I will not go through Millie’s way that nothing seemed to move even after this House passed resolutions and gave recommendations. It is sad that we are the only country that is not selfish of its own citizens. I have been a farmer before. If you are to export any food products out of this country, there is limitation even on when to spray pesticides. There are very strict measures. But it is sad that sometimes the products that are rejected for export at the airport are the ones that find their way back to our markets. You will find them being sold at the supermarkets and in our markets. Sometimes, even the ones who protect the so-called international markets from pesticides will find the pesticides on their plates. When you go to the supermarket, you do not know where the product comes from. Therefore, the issue of traceability of the pesticide arises. We should ask ourselves this: If they are rejected in other countries, why should Kenya be the dumping place? We need to be serious about our citizenry. It is sad that we are mourning the death of one of our colleague’s daughter who succumbed to cancer at 10 years old. Cancer has touched each one of us directly or indirectly; either through a family member, a person that you support, or a voter. As a nation, we must ask ourselves the hard questions: When did the rain start beating us? Why are we having so many cases of cancer in this country? Are there things that we can control? Hon. Millie has mentioned about the fish dying at the Lake. That is just an indicator of the worst things that are happening to us. I am in support of people moving away from offices so that they can take the lives of Kenyans seriously. We must put the lives of our voters first. We are always happy when we go to ask for their votes but when it comes to protection of innocent Kenyans who do not know what they are consuming, we turn a blind eye. I support and would like to urge the Government that this is the right time to crack the whip and make sure that the food we find on our tables, whether from the market or the supermarket, should go through similar scrutiny like that of the products we export. We must protect our own first before we even think of commercialisation and foreign exchange. We are not keen on our own. So, I support and pray that whatever deliberation will be passed… I do not know which committee follows up on issues that are passed in this House. Sometimes, we take time to deliberate, research and call the stakeholders but after we pass resolutions in this House, people get away with them. We should have a mechanism of recalling matters that are passed by this House. If no action is taken, then we should be the House that takes action. I thank you for giving me the opportunity."
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