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    "id": 1336969,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1336969/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Runyenjes, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Muchangi Karemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy speaker, for this opportunity. From the outset, I support the Kenya Drugs Authority Bill. I wish to commend Hon. Pukose and his Committee for a job well done. The issue of drugs and medicine is a very serious issue in this country. We have lost very many people through the hands of quack doctors and people who prescribe drugs to ailing citizens. Instead of giving them drugs, they end up giving them poison. This is because this sector of drugs is not properly regulated. I believe that by passing this Bill, this sector will have good regulations so that it is not everybody who wakes up one morning and decides to put up a pharmacy. We have seen and heard that in this country, the best business to put up is a pharmacy. I had a friend who used to brag how he made too much money out of the sale of medicine. One day you could hear him say how he bought medicine at a very low price, but sold it at very high price because many citizens could not authenticate the price of the medicine. I hope this Bill will take care of all this so that we do not have citizens consuming drugs from people who want to make profit, but not to cure or enable our citizens to heal. This Bill will ensure that we do not continue importing medicine from China and other countries. It will give our country the capacity to manufacture drugs and medicines for export, which will create jobs. I support the Bill. The Committee has done a good job. Let us also consider the idea of preventive measures. It would be very good if we could prevent the diseases that we seek to cure, so that we do not always need medicines. I support the Bill"
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