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    "id": 1417682,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1417682/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Uasin Gishu County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gladys Boss",
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    "content": "severally, but they have been incorrigible and have continued to be in bed with the agro chemical companies. They recently appeared before the Departmental Committee on Health. Hon. Ntwiga, you were a Member of the Departmental Committee on Health when I appeared before it and instead of ordering those products to be removed from the Kenyan market, the Committee was irresponsible enough to leave it to the vultures, the Pest Control Products Board. Since 2019, they have only removed seven products and the rest continue to remain in the market. Roundup gave people cancer and was removed from the markets abroad, but here in Kenya, they are resold under a different name. All those products are in our market and it is known to the authorities and the Departmental Committee on Health. It is counterproductive to amend that Bill. The real amendment should be dealing with this issue of pesticides. One of the things we should be asking in the House is; why is the Departmental Committee on Health not acting? The first Departmental Committee on Health in the 12th Parliament did not act, and the current one of the 13th Parliament has also not acted. The Pest Control Products Board and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development have not acted yet these are known facts. Those products are manufactured in Europe and America, but they are not allowed to be used. They are allowed to manufacture them for export to countries like Kenya which are foolish enough to allow the product into their country to continue killing their people. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady."
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