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    "id": 1460548,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1460548/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "who trade on those products have such impunity. This is not only about the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, but also it is about health and economic trade. We cannot trade with harmful products in our country that continue to harm our people. It is important that we have a multi-sectoral approach to this. We should ensure that we also do a lot of civic education, so that the public out there knows that the products they use in their farms will not help them in the long-term. They can end up killing them and future generations. We did a study in the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) on soil management and we are coming up with some law models. Some of those products that we put in our soil will take generations for us to get our soil back to its standards. It is important that we take this matter seriously and educate the public that those products should be removed from the shelves. No one should buy them. I really hope that Generation Z are listening. They are the young generation who will eat those products as well. Most of the generations like Millennials and Generation X have cancer because of consuming contaminated foods. We do not want Generation Z and the next generation to follow suit. It is important for us, as the Government, to take this matter seriously. Pesticides are killing us. They are eroding our soil. We are eating to die, but not to live. I pray that we will have a solution that safeguards us. We should be looking for compensation. Most of those companies are rich. They have exploited Africa. Those products are banned in other European countries, but they dump them to us at low prices. People make astronomical profits. I really believe that heads should turn. We should beg for compensation for the people who have cancer in our country because of consuming foods that have been grown with those products."
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