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    "id": 1506487,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1506487/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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    "content": " My apologies, Hon. Tandaza. When people started growing this crop in the 1970s, they had intelligence that was never captured in the Academy Books, though they knew what they were doing. It is relevant to bring this up, and for sure, it will have a lot of benefits, as you have put it in this Bill. Colouring food appeals to people. If food is colourless, the appetite is not there. We are using a lot of imported colourisation agents to make our food, which we should not do in this case. This is, therefore, a timely Bill. For cosmetic items like lipsticks - and I know ladies will jump on this very fast - instead of importing those we do not know where they came from, we can use our crops and build our own factories to ensure we know where the colouration comes from. I am amazed by the properties of prevention. If elephants cannot pass because of that crop, which does not need pesticides, farming input is reduced. That means farmers will put less and reap more when they plant this crop. The most important thing here, and as a person with a medical background, is that so many people suffer from drug resistance nowadays. And if it has medicinal properties, we can extract antibiotics which can attack indigenous diseases. That is a huge benefit from this big crop. Bixa will also give us pride as Kenyans if we commercialise and export it. We will become an exporting agent from this end, which in itself will create jobs for our people. It will also reduce the aligned items we import from other countries to Kenya. Hon. Tandaza, I support this Bill with those few remarks. Thank you."
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