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    "id": 1191145,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1191145/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "West Mugirango, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mogaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity and for being vigilant and corrective of us newcomers. I want to add my voice to this pesticide issue in this country because we have a very high rate of fatalities that are attributed to pesticides. For instance, my constituency, West Mugirango, is surrounded by tea estates which use a lot of pesticides. Even the employees who are made to use the pesticides have no protective gear. As a result, this country is facing a health crisis, particularly the illiterate workers of the major tea estates who expose themselves to danger in those plantations just to earn a living. Besides that, when pesticides are applied and livestock graze in those areas, many of them get sick or even die because of the careless application of the pesticides without warning. Pesticides are poisonous and every poison or medicine in this country is prescribed and has warnings on the dangers that anybody who comes into contact with it suffers. There are skin diseases that are contracted from contact with those pesticides by human beings or animals. I want to add my voice on behalf of the people of West Mugirango that we call for an urgent law that will regulate the management and application of pesticides in this country, not forgetting those which are applied on food, bought in the market and consumed, posing a great health hazard to the people. Hon Temporary Speaker, I support."
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