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    "id": 1498851,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498851/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Uasin Gishu County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gladys Boss",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to make some things clear. First, in the United States of America (USA), the Superior Court of California awarded farmers US$250 million apiece against Monsanto, which was manufacturing Roundup. It was after that court case that Roundup was completely banned. Monsanto is a huge company. They had armies of scientists, but they were not able to win the case. That case was applied to the entire Europe, North America and the USA. How foolish are we, as Kenyans, to think that we can get better scientists than those who have done it in those countries? Furthermore, it was said that the Monsanto Case had the highest number of scientists who were evaluating the claims in the history of a damages case in the USA. I sent details of that court case to your Office. You have that court case. Today, I am also mobilising. I will come up with a class action lawsuit against the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development and the PCPB because it is their responsibility to protect us. If those products are safe, why are they not being sold in Europe and America? If they are safe, why is it that when our farmers use those pesticide products and send their products abroad, the entire container is returned once the products are tested? I have visited six companies in Nakuru County and two in Nairobi County, which produce pyrethrum-based pesticides. When I asked them who buys from them because I know the ordinary farmer do not, they said that any farmer who exports products normally buys from them. Farmers will tell"
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