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    "id": 1341077,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1341077/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, Jubilee",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sabina Chege",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to thank the Cabinet Secretary for confirming what was banned in Kenya has come back as Velo. I want her to clarify the moratorium given by her predecessor to lift this product in June 2022 and allow it back into the market. Again, it is not manufactured in Kenya but comes from Hungary. Why would we allow an addictive drug to come to this country? I am a mother. I can tell you that we only have a slight warning at the back ‘Over 18 only.’ The Tobacco Act states that the side effects of any nicotine product should be printed on the package in both English and Kiswahili - halfway on the back. Looking at this Velo packet, the effects are quarter way written on the back and the front in a very tiny writing - 30 per cent. They have only stated that this product contains nicotine which is addictive. Cabinet Secretary, having come from a health background, you know that nicotine affects various parts of the human body. For instance, it brings cardio-vascular diseases, it affects reproductive health, among many other side effects. Why should the Ministry allow this drug to be sold in the Kenyan market? Why did we allow BAT, which is not producing this product here, to import a drug into the Kenyan market? In our areas of jurisdiction, we are talking about fighting drug addiction. That is why we have the NACADA. This is a drug because it contains nicotine, which is addictive. I walked out here and sent my driver to buy it. It is readily available everywhere. Our school going children buy it as they go to school."
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